How many baby Bicolored musk shrews are in a litter?
A Bicolored musk shrew (Crocidura fuscomurina) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.9 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Crocidura). An adult Bicolored musk shrew grows up to a size of 6 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 bicolored musk shrew (Crocidura fuscomurina) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and hot deserts.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Bicolored musk shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Lesser dwarf shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Elgon shrew weighting only 6 grams
- Dark-footed mouse shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Doucet’s musk shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Kilimanjaro shrew weighting only 16 grams
- Greater dwarf shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Canarian shrew weighting only 7 grams
- Slender shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bicolored musk shrew
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Lesser mole-rat
- True’s shrew mole
- Asian palm civet
- Small Indian civet
- Desert cottontail
- Coruro
- Stella wood mouse
- Woodland thicket rat
- Nimba otter shrew
- Desert hedgehog
Animals with the same weight as a Bicolored musk shrew
What other animals weight around 5 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- MacConnell’s bat weighting 6 grams
- Narrow-nosed planigale weighting 6 grams
- Stoliczka’s trident bat weighting 6 grams
- Flute-nosed bat weighting 4 grams
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew weighting 6 grams
- Dwarf dog-faced bat weighting 5 grams
- Grey long-eared bat weighting 6 grams
- Eastern forest bat weighting 5 grams
- Allen’s spotted bat weighting 5 grams
- Jones’s roundleaf bat weighting 5 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bicolored musk shrew
Also reaching around 6 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Townsend’s big-eared bat gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little desert pocket mouse gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saharan shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Temminck’s mouse gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Moss-forest blossom bat gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Red fruit bat gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Balochistan gerbil gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)