How many baby Lesser gray-brown musk shrews are in a litter?
A Lesser gray-brown musk shrew (Crocidura silacea) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Crocidura). An adult Lesser gray-brown musk shrew grows up to a size of 6.9 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 lesser gray-brown musk shrew (Crocidura silacea) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, and rocky areas.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Lesser gray-brown musk shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Wimmer’s shrew weighting only 23 grams
- Jackson’s shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ludia’s shrew weighting only 5 grams
- Salenski’s shrew weighting only 5 grams
- Long-tailed musk shrew weighting only 5 grams
- Aberdare mole shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bicolored shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Merriam’s shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Merida small-eared shrew weighting only 12 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Lesser gray-brown musk shrew
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Pyrenean desman
- Neacomys tenuipes
- Hog badger
- Gray climbing mouse
- Bahamian raccoon
- Collared pika
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa
- Père David’s mole
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser gray-brown musk shrew
What other animals weight around 7 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Big-eared horseshoe bat weighting 6 grams
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew weighting 6 grams
- Rufous mouse-eared bat weighting 7 grams
- Thick-eared bat weighting 8 grams
- De Winton’s long-eared bat weighting 6 grams
- Brown long-eared bat weighting 8 grams
- Large-toothed shrew weighting 8 grams
- Diminutive serotine weighting 6 grams
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew weighting 7 grams
- Savanna dwarf shrew weighting 6 grams