How many baby Aberdare mole shrews are in a litter?
A Aberdare mole shrew (Surdisorex norae) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Surdisorex). An adult Aberdare mole shrew grows up to a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Aberdare mole shrew (Surdisorex norae) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae endemic to the Aberdare Mountains in Kenya. Its natural habitat is tropical high-altitude bamboo and grassland.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Aberdare mole shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Dent’s shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Montane shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew weighting only 12 grams
- Kivu shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bates’s shrew weighting only 16 grams
- Eurasian least shrew with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese water shrew raching a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Fox’s shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- East African highland shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Aberdare mole shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Salt’s dik-dik
- Tibetan antelope
- Maned sloth
- Ribbon seal
- Red brocket
- Puna mouse
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
- Large-eared pied bat
- Silver fruit-eating bat
- Dent’s mona monkey
Animals with the same weight as a Aberdare mole shrew
What other animals weight around 23 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Kemp’s spiny mouse weighting 22 grams
- Least forest mouse weighting 21 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger weighting 26 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting 22 grams
- Bank vole weighting 20 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse weighting 23 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting 21 grams
- Woodland dormouse weighting 20 grams
- Kemp’s grass mouse weighting 26 grams
- Blackish grass mouse weighting 19 grams
Animals with the same size as a Aberdare mole shrew
Also reaching around 9.6 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Mindanao shrew-rat gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Père David’s vole gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-tipped Oldfield mouse gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sagebrush vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western red-backed vole gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cotton mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common rock rat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-eared squirrel gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden spiny mouse gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)