SPRINGWATCH host Chris Packham has recalled suffering a scary bite at the hands of a venomous animal.
He spoke about the scary ordeal with his co-star Michaela Strachan live on-air.
Chris’ tale came as the show took a closer look at the unlikely animal that was behind Chris’ worrying bite.
The animal in question was a small water shrew which Chris explained actually carried venomous poison.
Springwatch cameras had captured the water shrew on a night-vision camera when it caught a caddis fly in its mouth and began to tear into it.
Chris explained how the shrews are so fast-moving that they are rarely caught on camera.
Water shrew’s carry a venomous saliva so when they bite into their prey, it subdues whatever they are trying to attack.
It left Michaela quipping: “You wouldn’t want a bite off one of those then would you?”
Revealing he had once suffered at the hands of a water shrew, Chris went on to say: “I have been bitten by one actually.”
Shocked, Michaela was left stunned as she questioned: “Really?”
He said: “Yes and I am still alive as you might have noticed!”
“Did it hurt?,” his co-star questioned as he added: “Well, the nick in the hand nipped a bit.
“But no, the venom doesn’t impact humans, it is just for little invertebrates.”
It meant that thankfully the TV presenter suffered no real damage as he was able to shrug off the scary incident.
The story comes one day after Chris was left having to beg his fellow host to “calm down” after she unleashed a surprise hyper outburst live on air.
During the show Michaela, 58, appeared to get too excited as she introduced their Blue Tit Bird nest camera.
She told viewers: “You can see it’s empty there, it’s not been predated.
“It fledged and the crowd went wild… yes!”
Over crowd cheers, she continued: “Oh yes! I can’t tell you how excited we were when we saw that was empty.
“This is what we got excited about today, this little Blue Tit, how can you not love it, this is the only survivor out of eight chicks, everytime those wings flapped we were rooting for it, come on!”
After her passionate outburst Chris told Michaela he was ‘running for the defibrillator’ saying: “I’m going to need one if you don’t calm down!”
However, Springwatch viewers at home were left less than impressed and blasted Michaela.
One said on social media: “Jesus, calm down woman. This isn’t citv.”
A second wrote: “Michaela doing a Meg Ryan over the Blue Tit chick.”
