How many baby Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrews are in a litter?
A Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew (Soriculus caudatus) usually gives birth to around 4 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: Soriculus). An adult Hodgson’s brown-toothed 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.
Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew (Episoriculus caudatus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in China, India, and Myanmar.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Lesser dwarf shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Luzon shrew weighting only 10 grams
- Grant’s forest shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Montane shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Elgon shrew weighting only 6 grams
- Greater stripe-backed shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Large-toothed shrew weighting only 8 grams
- Elegant water shrew weighting only 38 grams
- Horsfield’s shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Least dwarf shrew weighting only 4 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Wolf
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil
- Krebs’s fat mouse
- Yellow-bellied marmot
- Wild boar
- Smith’s vole
- Pale gerbil
- Indian desert jird
- Shrew gymnure
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
Animals with the same size as a Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew
Also reaching around 6.4 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Chinese shrew gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cyclops roundleaf bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arctic shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)