Largest Elephant Shrew In India!!

Do you know what is shrew?? Shrew is always mistakenly known as rodent but actually it is not a rat or even categorized under rodent group.

The largest insect-eating elephant shrews weighing 1.5 pounds has been found by scientist in remote forests in East Africa.

Common shrew we found at home is small and used to be called as house shrew. Cat never like to eat shrew due to its unpleasant smell and taste for cats!!! Do not worry, shrew does not possess "non-stop growing" incisors as rats, thus giving no harm to human and cause no damage.