It is hard to guess what a Johnston’s forest shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Johnston’s forest shrew (Sylvisorex johnstoni) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Johnston’s forest shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sylvisorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.3 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.
Johnston’s forest shrew (Sylvisorex johnstoni) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae found in Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Johnston’s forest shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Tundra shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Southern short-tailed shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with a weight of 20 grams
- Southeastern shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Niobe’s shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Mount Kenya mole shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Himalayan shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Verapaz shrew with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Johnston’s forest shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sylvisorex johnstoni:
- Least shrew tenrec bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Canyon bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Curacao myotis bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Ashy roundleaf bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thick-thumbed myotis bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thumbless bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Southeastern shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Frosted sac-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 3 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Johnston’s forest shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Johnston’s forest shrew:
- Dwarf shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rhinolophus hilli with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Arizona shrew with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hairy big-eyed bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cinereus shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fat mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a size of 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)