How many baby Blackish white-toothed shrews are in a litter?
A Blackish white-toothed shrew (Crocidura nigricans) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Crocidura). An adult Blackish white-toothed shrew grows up to a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The blackish white-toothed shrew (Crocidura nigricans) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Angola.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Blackish white-toothed shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Mexican long-tailed shrew weighting only 7 grams
- Iberian shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Ultimate shrew weighting only 16 grams
- Dwarf shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Malayan water shrew weighting only 55 grams
- Myosorex varius with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Elegant water shrew weighting only 38 grams
- Hildegarde’s shrew weighting only 10 grams
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Madagascan pygmy shrew weighting only 2 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Blackish white-toothed shrew
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Royle’s pika
- Père David’s mole
- Dolorous grass mouse
- Cotton mouse
- Shipton’s mountain cavy
- Himalayan pika
- Brush mouse
- Nyika rock rat
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Hog badger
Animals with the same weight as a Blackish white-toothed shrew
What other animals weight around 20 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Van Gelder’s bat weighting 22 grams
- Northern yellow bat weighting 22 grams
- Red fruit bat weighting 21 grams
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat weighting 21 grams
- Fox’s shrew weighting 21 grams
- Akodon affinis weighting 24 grams
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 23 grams
- Neacomys spinosus weighting 19 grams
- Desert long-eared bat weighting 21 grams
- Lakeland Downs mouse weighting 17 grams