It is hard to guess what a Bates’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bates’s shrew (Crocidura batesi) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Bates’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.8 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.
Bates’s shrew (Crocidura batesi) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. This large black shrew was first described by the British zoologist Guy Dollman in 1915, the type locality being the vicinity of the Como River in Gabon. The exact definition of this species is unclear; it is often included in Fraser’s musk shrew (Crocidura poensis), or reported as Wimmer’s shrew (Crocidura wimmeri). Its karyotype is 2n=50, FN-76, which is identical to the Nigerian shrew (Crocidura nigeriae), and the species complex is in need of a thorough revision.
Animals of the same family as a Bates’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Smoky white-toothed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Siberian large-toothed shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Prairie shrew with 7 babies per litter
- Chestnut-bellied shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Mediterranean water shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Laxmann’s shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Savanna dwarf shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Smoky shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Mexican shrew with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bates’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura batesi:
- Upemba shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Gerbil mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Neacomys tenuipes bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Brown flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Algerian mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Feathertail glider bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Maggie Taylor’s roundleaf bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Northern ghost bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Mediterranean water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bates’s shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bates’s shrew:
- Montane grass mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian water shrew with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silky pocket mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Steppe mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)