Pregnancy may explain why this poor tree shrew got stuck in a drainage pipe.
On June 2, Facebook user Ng Suan Eng shared her encounter with the native mammal, which she found trapped inside a weep hole in her backyard retaining wall.
“It was half dead and exhausted after struggling to survive the whole day,” she wrote.
Ng called the Animal Concerns Research and Education Society (Acres) to rescue the tree shrew, and praised their efforts.
“After feeding it with some water, it became conscious, and the team used oil, carefully and patiently pulled it out eventually,” she wrote. “Grateful to have these guardian angels of our wildlife.”
Lianhe Zaobao reported that the incident took place at Ng’s home near Rifle Range Nature Park in Bukit Timah.
Ng, 80, told the Chinese daily that she had first spotted two shrews darting around her backyard while she was having breakfast that morning, but around 5pm, her domestic helper heard sharp shrieks coming from the background and found one of them stuck.
The retiree believes it may have been stuck there since the morning and exhausted its strength struggling to break free.
She didn’t want to risk injury trying to free it, so she called Acres and tried to give it water in the meantime, after which it appeared more alert.
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