How big does a Gray-bellied caenolestid get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Gray-bellied caenolestid (Caenolestes caniventer) reaches an average size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 40 grams (0.09 lbs). A Gray-bellied caenolestid has 2 babies at once. The Gray-bellied caenolestid (genus: Caenolestes) is a member of the family Caenolestidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The gray-bellied caenolestid (Caenolestes caniventer), or grey-bellied shrew opossum, is a shrew opossum found in humid, temperate forests and moist grasslands of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It was first described by American zoologist Harold Elmer Anthony in 1921. Little is known about the behavior of the gray-bellied caenolestid. It appears to be terrestrial (land-living) and crepuscular (active around twilight) or nocturnal (active at night). Diet consists of invertebrate larvae, small vertebrates and plant material. The IUCN classifies the gray-bellied caenolestid as near threatened.
Animals of the same family as a Gray-bellied caenolestid
We found other animals of the Caenolestidae family:
- Long-nosed caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Andean caenolestid with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern caenolestid with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Incan caenolestid with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Gray-bellied caenolestid
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray-bellied caenolestid:
- Dwarf flying fox with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater tree mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Handley’s slender opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared woolly bat with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Buller’s chipmunk with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray-bellied caenolestid
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Gray-bellied caenolestid:
- Brazilian guinea pig
- True’s vole
- Hinde’s rock rat
- Island fox
- Rusty-spotted genet
- Van Deusen’s rat
- Greater dwarf shrew
- Lesser cane rat
- Littledale’s whistling rat
- Agile kangaroo rat
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-bellied caenolestid
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Caenolestes caniventer:
- Japanese water shrew bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Woolly horseshoe bat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Pseudoryzomys bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Dalton’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Hatt’s vesper rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- African giant shrew bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Dusky hopping mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Montane fish-eating rat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Northern collared lemming bringing 46 grams to the scale