With the advent of Google and mobile phones, nobody needs to know / remember anything these days.
There is knowledge you know and knowledge you know where to find
( Dr Johnson 1742) - he probz said - "a man knows"
"The Shrew". They said "That's incorrect - it's the European Pygmy Shrew". So close!
yeah I knew that - sorex minimus ( as Naomi says: I am great at super-fast googling!) - difft species to er other sorices.
No Honestly when I was at Porton Down 1970, there was the only man in Europe there who cd breed them in captivity ! Resting respiratory rate 140 I think. Easy to frighten to death and they wont er kiss. People came from all over Europe to ask him how he did it. he told them. And they still cdnt do it