How many baby Iberian shrews are in a litter?
A Iberian shrew (Sorex granarius) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
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 Iberian shrew grows up to a size of 6.3 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 Iberian shrew or Lagranja shrew (Sorex granarius) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Portugal and Spain.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Iberian shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Piebald shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- American pygmy shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Saussure’s shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Merida small-eared shrew weighting only 12 grams
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Dent’s shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Smith’s shrew raching a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Scaly-footed small-eared shrew weighting only 11 grams
- Luzon shrew weighting only 10 grams
- Nigerian shrew weighting only 23 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Iberian shrew
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Montane wood mouse
- Fawn-colored mouse
- Plateau pika
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Transcaucasian mole vole
- Great Basin pocket mouse
- Spinifex hopping mouse
- Gray-collared chipmunk
- Panamint chipmunk
- Black-tailed gerbil
Animals with the same weight as a Iberian shrew
What other animals weight around 6 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Red myotis weighting 5 grams
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat weighting 6 grams
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew weighting 6 grams
- Geoffroy’s bat weighting 7 grams
- Benito roundleaf bat weighting 6 grams
- Fly River trumpet-eared bat weighting 5 grams
- Lesser dwarf shrew weighting 5 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- Yellowish myotis weighting 5 grams
- Croslet horseshoe bat weighting 7 grams
Animals with the same size as a Iberian shrew
Also reaching around 6.3 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Somali pygmy gerbil gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian tomb bat gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser striped shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-eared pocket mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Trowbridge’s shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common blossom bat gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)