[apoxonu]

"But perhaps a nest by the river eroded, dumping all of the shrews into the water where this rainbow trout likely came away feeling like a lottery winner."

Family Soricidae. Shrews can swim, and even swim under water, sometimes in groups. I learned this while getting my undergrad zoology degree. Wonder why the biologists didn't surmise this.

[ek_hornbeck]

I guess they weren’t water shrews or otter shrews.

[1rudeboy]

I hate know-it-alls. Shrew you.