It is hard to guess what a Montane shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Montane shrew (Sorex monticolus) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Montane shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). They can live for up to 1.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Montane shrews can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 montane shrew (Sorex monticolus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae commonly known as the dusky shrew. Monticolus is derived from the Latin root word mons meaning mountain. It is found in Alaska, western Canada, the western United States in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Oregon, Nevada, and California, as well as in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Montane shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ussuri shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Horsfield’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Wimmer’s shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Trowbridge’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Merida small-eared shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Rainey’s shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Flat-skulled shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Montane shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex monticolus:
- Eurasian harvest mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Swinny’s horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Salenski’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Common pipistrelle bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Lesser dog-like bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Dwarf dog-faced bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Dormer’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Montane shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Montane shrew:
- White-tailed prairie dog
- Alston’s cotton rat
- Rufous mouse opossum
- Ural field mouse
- Little Indian field mouse
- Long-clawed shrew
- Paucident planigale
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Montane shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Montane shrew:
- Crowned shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Western harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Southern marsupial mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Ornate shrew with an average maximal age of 1.42 years
- Alpine shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Long-clawed shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Arctic shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Himalayan mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Cotton mouse with an average maximal age of 1.25 years