How many baby Grant’s forest shrews are in a litter?
A Grant’s forest shrew (Sylvisorex granti) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 34 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 11.2 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Sylvisorex). An adult Grant’s forest shrew grows up to a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 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.
Grant’s forest shrew (Sylvisorex granti) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae found in the mountain forests of central Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.Type locality: Uganda, Ruwenzori East, Mubuku Valley, 10,000 ft (3,048 m) elevation.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Grant’s forest shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Montane shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Baird’s shrew weighting only 8 grams
- Slender shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Piebald shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew weighting only 14 grams
- Dwarf shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Eurasian water shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Savanna swamp shrew weighting only 19 grams
- Johnston’s forest shrew weighting only 3 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Grant’s forest shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once: