How many baby Crowned shrews are in a litter?
A Crowned shrew (Sorex coronatus) 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 24 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 90 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Sorex). An adult Crowned shrew grows up to a size of 7.2 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 crowned shrew or Millet’s shrew (Sorex coronatus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the British island of Jersey. It is almost indistinguishable from the common shrew, its habitatal preferences and habits are identical. However it has a different karyotype, is slightly smaller, and has small morphological differences, such as a longer rostrum (upper tooth-row and mandible) relative to length of skull.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Crowned shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Prairie shrew with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Flat-headed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed musk shrew weighting only 5 grams
- Southern short-tailed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blackish small-eared shrew weighting only 8 grams
- Savanna path shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Salenski’s shrew weighting only 5 grams
- Long-tailed shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Climbing shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Therese’s shrew weighting only 17 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Crowned shrew
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Kowari
- Dalton’s mouse
- Daurian pika
- Long-tailed shrew
- Piebald shrew
- Vagrant shrew
- Dusky slender opossum
- Ural field mouse
- Yellow-necked mouse
- Olive-backed pocket mouse
Animals that get as old as a Crowned shrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1.08 years:
- Meadow vole with 0.92 years
- Long-tailed planigale with 1.25 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with 1 years
- Hottentot golden mole with 1 years
- Crawford’s gray shrew with 1.25 years
- Myosorex varius with 1 years
- Alpine shrew with 1.25 years
- Creeping vole with 1.25 years
- Wood lemming with 1 years
Animals with the same weight as a Crowned shrew
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Small bent-winged bat weighting 8 grams
- Honey possum weighting 9 grams
- Dark-winged lesser house bat weighting 9 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat weighting 10 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat weighting 10 grams
- Long-legged bat weighting 8 grams
- Micronomus weighting 8 grams
- Hildegarde’s shrew weighting 10 grams
- Natal long-fingered bat weighting 10 grams
- Micronycteris sylvestris weighting 8 grams
Animals with the same size as a Crowned shrew
Also reaching around 7.2 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Somali serotine gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cuban flower bat gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Olive-backed pocket mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large-eared tenrec gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Temminck’s mouse gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- San Joaquin pocket mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater forest shrew gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Madagascan flying fox gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Vagrant shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)