How many baby Butiaba naked-tailed shrews are in a litter?
A Butiaba naked-tailed shrew (Crocidura littoralis) usually gives birth to around 2 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 Butiaba naked-tailed 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 Butiaba naked-tailed shrew (Crocidura littoralis) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Butiaba naked-tailed shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- North American least shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Eurasian water shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Greater red musk shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mediterranean water shrew with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Grant’s forest shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mindanao shrew weighting only 10 grams
- Chinese water shrew raching a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Trowbridge’s shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew weighting only 7 grams
- Whitaker’s shrew weighting only 5 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Butiaba naked-tailed shrew
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Common gundi
- Black-footed tree-rat
- Lesser bamboo rat
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat
- Southern spiny pocket mouse
- Andean mouse
- African clawless otter
- Peters’s musk shrew
- Japanese hare
Animals with the same weight as a Butiaba naked-tailed shrew
What other animals weight around 18 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat weighting 19 grams
- Drylands vesper mouse weighting 20 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat weighting 20 grams
- Velvety fruit-eating bat weighting 16 grams
- Western red-backed vole weighting 18 grams
- Ipanema bat weighting 18 grams
- Brown fruit-eating bat weighting 19 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat weighting 16 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat weighting 15 grams
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse weighting 20 grams