How many baby Mediterranean water shrews are in a litter?
A Mediterranean water shrew (Neomys anomalus) usually gives birth to around 7 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 26 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Neomys). An adult Mediterranean water shrew grows up to a size of 7.5 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 Mediterranean, Southern or Miller’s water shrew (Neomys anomalus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Mediterranean water shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Geata mouse shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Gansu shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Dark-footed mouse shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Greater dwarf shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Myosorex varius with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Transcaucasian water shrew raching a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Luzon shrew weighting only 10 grams
- Kivu long-haired shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yankari shrew weighting only 5 grams
- Trowbridge’s shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mediterranean water shrew
Those animals also give birth to 7 babies at once:
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
- Sakhalin vole
- Drylands vesper mouse
- Fat-tailed dunnart
- Flat-skulled shrew
- Swamp antechinus
- Ooldea dunnart
- Gray short-tailed opossum
- Richardson’s ground squirrel
- European hamster
Animals that get as old as a Mediterranean water shrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2 years:
- Norway lemming with 2 years
- Southern red-backed vole with 1.67 years
- Mongolian gerbil with 2 years
- McIlhenny’s four-eyed opossum with 2.25 years
- White-eared opossum with 1.67 years
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with 2 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with 2 years
- Pilbara ningaui with 2 years
- Dusky antechinus with 2 years
- Marsh rice rat with 2.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mediterranean water shrew
What other animals weight around 13 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Little long-tailed dunnart weighting 14 grams
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat weighting 14 grams
- Western bent-winged bat weighting 14 grams
- Southern dog-faced bat weighting 12 grams
- Parti-coloured bat weighting 15 grams
- Hairy-tailed bat weighting 14 grams
- Flat-skulled shrew weighting 13 grams
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat weighting 12 grams
- Oldfield mouse weighting 14 grams
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat weighting 15 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mediterranean water shrew
Also reaching around 7.5 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Desert dormouse gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern pygmy mouse gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Jamaican fruit bat gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- North American least shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ranee mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)