How many baby Horsfield’s shrews are in a litter?
A Horsfield’s shrew (Crocidura horsfieldii) usually gives birth to around 3 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 Horsfield’s 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.
Horsfield’s shrew (Crocidura horsfieldii) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae found in Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Horsfield’s shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Dent’s shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Lesser dwarf shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Verapaz shrew weighting only 7 grams
- Japanese water shrew weighting only 36 grams
- Montane white-toothed shrew weighting only 14 grams
- Reddish-gray musk shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Therese’s shrew weighting only 17 grams
- Grasse’s shrew raching a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Niobe’s shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Horsfield’s shrew
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Alpine pika
- Savanna gerbil
- Meerkat
- Rock vole
- Hylaeamys megacephalus
- Hylaeamys megacephalus
- California chipmunk
- Desert kangaroo rat
- Crab-eating mongoose
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat
Animals with the same weight as a Horsfield’s shrew
What other animals weight around 5 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Blyth’s horseshoe bat weighting 5 grams
- Ridley’s bat weighting 4 grams
- Setzer’s pygmy mouse weighting 6 grams
- Lesser dog-like bat weighting 5 grams
- Elgon shrew weighting 6 grams
- Merriam’s shrew weighting 5 grams
- Iberian shrew weighting 6 grams
- Fly River trumpet-eared bat weighting 5 grams
- Saharan shrew weighting 6 grams
- Carmen Mountain shrew weighting 4 grams
Animals with the same size as a Horsfield’s shrew
Also reaching around 6.4 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Bicolored musk shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Salt marsh harvest mouse gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- San Joaquin pocket mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Least shrew tenrec gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Panamint kangaroo rat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grant’s golden mole gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian pygmy shrew gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)