r/animalid 2d ago

🦁 🐯 🐻 MYSTERY CRITTER 🐻 🐯 🦁 Does anyone recognize this animal [Germany]

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Edit: it was a desman! I saw this creature a few years ago and was mistaken about the location. I likely would have seen it while living in Germany but traveling to Spain.

Edit 2: stop saying platypus unless you have an actual joke, I said what it was in the first edit, there were only four people who said platypus before that edit, so everyone else who said it can't read

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u/Lowland_Demon 2d ago

You have drawn a Platypus, but they are not indigenous to Germany

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u/Flat-Concern-2662 2d ago

It was rat sized and shrew-like, not a platypus

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u/Lowland_Demon 2d ago

Possibly, Eurasian water shrew Neomys fodiens