How many baby Big Mexican small-eared shrews are in a litter?
A Big Mexican small-eared shrew (Cryptotis magna) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 99 grams (0.22 lbs) and measure 2.2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Cryptotis). An adult Big Mexican small-eared shrew grows up to a size of 8.4 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 big Mexican small-eared shrew (Cryptotis magna) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Mexico.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Big Mexican small-eared shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Moonshine shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican shrew weighting only 11 grams
- Grant’s forest shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ornate shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Fog shrew weighting only 8 grams
- Ultimate shrew weighting only 16 grams
- Dsinezumi shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- American pygmy shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- African black shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Upemba shrew weighting only 14 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Big Mexican small-eared shrew
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse
- Horsfield’s treeshrew
- Highland tuco-tuco
- Grey-bellied squirrel
- Ochre bush squirrel
- Iberian lynx
- Lundomys
- African striped weasel
- Siberian roe deer
- Indian grey mongoose
Animals with the same weight as a Big Mexican small-eared shrew
What other animals weight around 7 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Silky pocket mouse weighting 7 grams
- Chestnut-bellied shrew weighting 7 grams
- Savi’s pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- Chestnut climbing mouse weighting 8 grams
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec weighting 8 grams
- MacConnell’s bat weighting 6 grams
- Malagasy serotine weighting 6 grams
- Savanna dwarf shrew weighting 6 grams
- Bourret’s horseshoe bat weighting 8 grams
Animals with the same size as a Big Mexican small-eared shrew
Also reaching around 8.4 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Pale kangaroo mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Siberian large-toothed shrew gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy tarsier gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-eared pocket mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Smith’s shrew gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pallas’s pika gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern short-tailed shrew gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- American shrew mole gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)