How many baby Moonshine shrews are in a litter?
A Moonshine shrew (Crocidura luna) usually gives birth to around 1 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 Moonshine 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.
The moonshine shrew (Crocidura luna) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Moonshine shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Piebald shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Verapaz shrew weighting only 7 grams
- Kilimanjaro shrew weighting only 16 grams
- Greater red musk shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Climbing shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican small-eared shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bicolored musk shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Climbing shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Trowbridge’s shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian large-toothed shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Moonshine shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brown woolly monkey
- Stein’s cuscus
- Sowerby’s beaked whale
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Grant’s golden mole
- African buffalo
- New Caledonia blossom bat
- Kirk’s dik-dik
- Malagasy civet
Animals with the same weight as a Moonshine shrew
What other animals weight around 13 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Pleasant gerbil weighting 13 grams
- Slender harvest mouse weighting 12 grams
- Intermediate horseshoe bat weighting 13 grams
- Central pebble-mound mouse weighting 12 grams
- Microryzomys minutus weighting 13 grams
- Big naked-backed bat weighting 13 grams
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat weighting 11 grams
- Peters’s mouse weighting 11 grams
- Broad-eared bat weighting 13 grams
- Rainey’s shrew weighting 14 grams