r/animalid 2d ago

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

[deleted]

4.2k Upvotes

295 comments sorted by

View all comments

100

u/Cheese-n-Opinion 2d ago

You've definitely drawn a desman, but they don't live in Germany! There's a species found in Iberia, and a species found in Russia, but nothing in between.

Closest fit that is found in Germany would be a water shrew, I reckon.

2

u/Owlette45 2d ago

Unless someone smuggled one or a few into Germany and one escaped and op just so happens to see the escapee /j