How many baby Mount Kenya mole shrews are in a litter?
A Mount Kenya mole shrew (Surdisorex polulus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Surdisorex). An adult Mount Kenya mole shrew grows up to a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Mount Kenya mole shrew (Surdisorex polulus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae endemic to Mount Kenya in Kenya. Its natural habitat is tropical high-altitude bamboo and grassland.The Mt. Kenya mole shrew is listed as vulnerable because it is known to only be found in a single location in highlands of Mount Kenya. The habitat of the species is dense montane grassland.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Mount Kenya mole shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Mediterranean water shrew with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- American water shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Apennine shrew weighting only 8 grams
- Sahelian tiny shrew weighting only 6 grams
- Chinese shrew raching a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Horsfield’s shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Saussure’s shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Crocidura grandiceps weighting only 23 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Mount Kenya mole shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Formosan rock macaque
- Black flying fox
- Bush vlei rat
- Guatemalan deer mouse
- Giant armadillo
- Nabarlek
- Little forest bat
- African sheath-tailed bat
- Roe deer
Animals with the same weight as a Mount Kenya mole shrew
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Pouched gerbil weighting 10 grams
- Long-legged myotis weighting 8 grams
- Tonatia brasiliense weighting 9 grams
- Small bent-winged bat weighting 8 grams
- San Joaquin pocket mouse weighting 10 grams
- Common bent-wing bat weighting 10 grams
- Tailed tailless bat weighting 10 grams
- Tasmanian pygmy possum weighting 8 grams
- Eastern long-eared bat weighting 9 grams
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 10 grams