Assertion: elephant shrew | /r/HasProperty | small
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text: They have a high metabolic rate so are required to hunt and feed every few hours meaning they must be active both night and day throughout the entire year, they must consume their own body weight in food every day to survive as they are so small they will burn most of their energy while hunting and are unable to store excess energy as fatty tissue.
text: The elephant shrew, belonging to the family Macroscelididae, is small mammal, enough to comfortably fit in the palm of your hand, that are found across all of Africa.
text: Although it is constantly losing body heat because it is so small, it also benefits from this because to generate that energy takes less food than it would for a larger shrew.
text: The pygmy shrew is so small that it has been known to use burrows created by beetles.