It is hard to guess what a Crocidura grandiceps weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Crocidura grandiceps (Crocidura grandiceps) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Crocidura grandiceps is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.7 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.
Crocidura grandiceps is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Togo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. The vernacular name large-headed shrew is sometimes applied to C. grandiceps but has also been used for the entire related genus Paracrocidura.
Animals of the same family as a Crocidura grandiceps
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Crosse’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Arizona shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Mediterranean water shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Baird’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Bottego’s shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Myosorex varius with a weight of 11 grams
- Southern short-tailed shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fraser’s musk shrew with a weight of 17 grams
- Savanna dwarf shrew with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Crocidura grandiceps
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura grandiceps:
- Smoky grass mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Agile antechinus bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Taiwan field mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Tufted pygmy squirrel bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Andean vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Van Gelder’s bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- White-footed vole bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale