It is hard to guess what a Fraser’s musk shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fraser’s musk shrew (Crocidura poensis) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Fraser’s musk shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.8 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Fraser’s musk shrews have 2 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.
Fraser’s musk shrew (Crocidura poensis) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, São Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. This large black shrew was first described by the British zoologist Louis Fraser in 1843. Its exact definition is unclear; the karyotype comes from Ivory Coast but not from Equatorial Guinea, which is given as the type locality.
Animals of the same family as a Fraser’s musk shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Large-eared gray shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Marsh shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Bicolored shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Shinto shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hero shrew with a weight of 91 grams
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Volcano shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Slender shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Turbo shrew with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fraser’s musk shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura poensis:
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Taphozous philippinensis bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed dunnart bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Handley’s tailless bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Egyptian free-tailed bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Sandy inland mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Canyon mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Nigerian free-tailed bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Nyika climbing mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Fraser’s musk shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Fraser’s musk shrew: