This is a pen-tailed tree shrew, Ptilocercus lowii, a Malaysian critter that weighs only 47g but can drink the pound-for-pound equivalent of nine glasses of wine without any ill-effect when it sups on the alcoholic nectar of the bertam palm. While there are other species that drink the nectar - the slow loris, Nycticebus coucang, the common tree shrew, Tupaia glis, and the plantain squirrel, Callosciurus notatus - the shrew is the Oliver Reed of the bunch.
See doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801628105
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"...the shrew is the Oliver Reed of the bunch."
But can it act? I mean, when has it ever been in "Taming of the Shrew"? Huh? Huh? Huh?!
What kind of adaptations does it have to do this? WC Fields's liver?