It is hard to guess what a Savanna path shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Savanna path shrew (Crocidura viaria) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Savanna path shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.8 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Savanna path 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 savanna path shrew (Crocidura viaria) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, and heavily degraded former forest.
Animals of the same family as a Savanna path shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Japanese water shrew with a weight of 35 grams
- Greater dwarf shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Myosorex varius with a weight of 11 grams
- Mexican shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Prairie shrew with 7 babies per litter
- Eisentraut’s shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Long-clawed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Greater stripe-backed shrew with 4 babies per litter
- Glacier Bay water shrew with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Savanna path shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura viaria:
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Greater long-tailed hamster bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Turbo shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Colombian forest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Insular single leaf bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Bonda mastiff bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Cape hairy bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- New Guinean jumping mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Savanna path shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Savanna path shrew:
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malayan water shrew with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Savanna path shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Savanna path shrew: