How many baby American water shrews are in a litter?
A American water shrew (Sorex palustris) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Sorex). An adult American water shrew grows up to a size of 7.4 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 American water shrew (Sorex palustris) or northern water shrew, is found in the nearctic faunal region located throughout the mountain ranges of northern United States and in Canada and Alaska.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
American water shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Vagrant shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Arctic shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Aberdare mole shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kivu long-haired shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blackish small-eared shrew weighting only 8 grams
- Swamp musk shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Grasse’s shrew raching a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mount Kenya mole shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gansu shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with American water shrew
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Long-eared chipmunk
- Northern grass mouse
- Montane vole
- Middendorf’s vole
- Narrow-nosed planigale
- Norway lemming
- Marbled polecat
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse
- Pale field rat
- Bobrinski’s jerboa
Animals that get as old as a American water shrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1.5 years:
- Atlantic bamboo rat with 1.58 years
- Malabar spiny dormouse with 1.67 years
- Trowbridge’s shrew with 1.5 years
- Himalayan mole with 1.5 years
- Ornate shrew with 1.42 years
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with 1.67 years
- Brush mouse with 1.5 years
- Alpine shrew with 1.25 years
- Montane shrew with 1.33 years
- North American least shrew with 1.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a American water shrew
What other animals weight around 13 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Arizona pocket mouse weighting 11 grams
- Mexican shrew weighting 11 grams
- Southern dog-faced bat weighting 12 grams
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew weighting 12 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse weighting 12 grams
- True’s shrew mole weighting 14 grams
- Asian barbastelle weighting 15 grams
- Intermediate horseshoe bat weighting 13 grams
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat weighting 13 grams
- Jamaican flower bat weighting 14 grams
Animals with the same size as a American water shrew
Also reaching around 7.4 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Hairy-legged vampire bat gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape serotine gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray spiny mouse gets as big as 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rhinolophus hilli gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ranee mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- African pygmy squirrel gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Paratriaenops furculus gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)