It is hard to guess what a Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec (Microgale principula) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Microgale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.6 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 greater long-tailed shrew tenrec (Microgale principula) is an afrotherian species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar, where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests or moist montane forests. Habitat loss threatens its survival.
Animals of the same family as a Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with a weight of 277 grams
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec with a weight of 18 grams
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 12 grams
- Lowland streaked tenrec with a weight of 129 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 4 grams
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a weight of 39 grams
- Tailless tenrec with a weight of 894 grams
- Large-eared tenrec with a weight of 6 grams
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 45 grams
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 37 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microgale principula:
- Salt marsh harvest mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Lander’s horseshoe bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Mindanao shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Seminole bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Pygmy gerbil bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s horseshoe bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Southern yellow bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Egyptian slit-faced bat bringing 9 grams to the scale