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		tyre on Feb 5, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Mount Lyell shrew has just been photographed ali... That doesn’t sound mean. It sounds like you shouldn’t pick up a wild animal.

not2b on Feb 5, 2025 | [–]

The shrew had to assume you were going to eat it, and it did what it needed to do to escape.

sixothree on Feb 6, 2025 | [–]

I think you cane safely assume he meant “fierce”. Or you know, insist on strict semantic meaning.

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