How many baby Flat-skulled shrews are in a litter?
A Flat-skulled shrew (Sorex roboratus) usually gives birth to around 7 babies.
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 Flat-skulled shrew grows up to a size of 7.3 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 flat-skulled shrew (Sorex roboratus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Mongolia, China and Russia.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Flat-skulled shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Babault’s mouse shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Chestnut-bellied shrew weighting only 7 grams
- Ultimate shrew weighting only 16 grams
- Fog shrew weighting only 8 grams
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Turbo shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Transcaucasian water shrew raching a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Horsfield’s shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- African giant shrew weighting only 33 grams
- Dsinezumi shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Flat-skulled shrew
Those animals also give birth to 7 babies at once:
- Gray short-tailed opossum
- Pallas’s pika
- Common planigale
- Northern red-sided opossum
- Prairie shrew
- Common opossum
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel
- Dibbler
- Southern multimammate mouse
- Swamp antechinus
Animals with the same weight as a Flat-skulled shrew
What other animals weight around 13 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Para dog-faced bat weighting 12 grams
- Southern dog-faced bat weighting 12 grams
- Chestnut short-tailed bat weighting 13 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse weighting 12 grams
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat weighting 15 grams
- Merida small-eared shrew weighting 12 grams
- Allen’s big-eared bat weighting 12 grams
- Chiriqui brown mouse weighting 15 grams
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec weighting 12 grams
- Common planigale weighting 12 grams
Animals with the same size as a Flat-skulled shrew
Also reaching around 7.3 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Plains pocket mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Vagrant shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern short-tailed shrew gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Paratriaenops furculus gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little yellow-shouldered bat gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-sided opossum gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hoary bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Smoky shrew gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Honey possum gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- True’s shrew mole gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)