It is hard to guess what a Southern short-tailed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern short-tailed shrew (Blarina carolinensis) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Southern short-tailed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Blarina). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.3 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Southern short-tailed shrews have 3 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The southern short-tailed shrew (Blarina carolinensis) is a gray, short-tailed shrew that inhabits the eastern United States.
Animals of the same family as a Southern short-tailed shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Dent’s shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Long-tailed shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Somali shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Jouvenet’s shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Mount Kenya mole shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- African black shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Inyo shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Johnston’s forest shrew with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern short-tailed shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Blarina carolinensis:
- Pouched gerbil bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum bringing 11 grams to the scale
- White-bellied lesser house bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Black-gilded pipistrelle bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Southern birch mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Dark-winged lesser house bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Trident bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Cape hairy bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Southern short-tailed shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern short-tailed shrew:
- Egyptian tomb bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-winged bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern short-tailed shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Southern short-tailed shrew: