It is hard to guess what a Mount Kenya mole shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mount Kenya mole shrew (Surdisorex polulus) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Mount Kenya mole shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Surdisorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.6 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Mount Kenya mole shrews have 1 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.
The Mount Kenya mole shrew (Surdisorex polulus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae endemic to Mount Kenya in Kenya. Its natural habitat is tropical high-altitude bamboo and grassland.The Mt. Kenya mole shrew is listed as vulnerable because it is known to only be found in a single location in highlands of Mount Kenya. The habitat of the species is dense montane grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Mount Kenya mole shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Japanese water shrew with a weight of 36 grams
- Shinto shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ussuri shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Upemba shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Rainey’s shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Apennine shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Tundra shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater red musk shrew with a weight of 31 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mount Kenya mole shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Surdisorex polulus:
- Black-gilded pipistrelle bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Fog shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Common shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Antillean ghost-faced bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Common bent-wing bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Small bent-winged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Spurrell’s free-tailed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- White-bellied lesser house bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Mount Kenya mole shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mount Kenya mole shrew: