It is hard to guess what a Asiatic short-tailed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Asiatic short-tailed shrew (Blarinella quadraticauda) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Asiatic short-tailed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Blarinella). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 cm (0′ 3″).
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 Asiatic short-tailed shrew (Blarinella quadraticauda) is one of three species of shrew in the genus Blarinella. It is in the family Soricidae and is endemic to China.
Animals of the same family as a Asiatic short-tailed shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Inyo shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Savanna path shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Greater dwarf shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Long-tailed shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Mauritanian shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Ussuri shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Savanna shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Swamp musk shrew with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Asiatic short-tailed shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Blarinella quadraticauda:
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Pleasant gerbil bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew tenrec bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys altissimus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Damara woolly bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Taiva shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Natal long-fingered bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Silver fruit-eating bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Asiatic 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 Asiatic short-tailed shrew:
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mediterranean water shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Serotine bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tien Shan shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern pygmy mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)