It is hard to guess what a Ruwenzori shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ruwenzori shrew (Ruwenzorisorex suncoides) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Ruwenzori shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Ruwenzorisorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Ruwenzori shrew (Ruwenzorisorex suncoides) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is monotypic within the genus Ruwenzorisorex. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. It is semiaquatic, living along streams in tropical cloud forest.
Animals of the same family as a Ruwenzori shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Taiga shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Johnston’s forest shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Long-tailed musk shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Chinese water shrew with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Therese’s shrew with a weight of 17 grams
- Doucet’s musk shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Eisentraut’s shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Sclater’s shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Mexican small-eared shrew with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ruwenzori shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ruwenzorisorex suncoides:
- Asian barbastelle bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Delicate slender opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Tomes’s sword-nosed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Brown fruit-eating bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Sanborn’s bonneted bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale