How many baby Ornate shrews are in a litter?
A Ornate shrew (Sorex ornatus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Sorex). An adult Ornate shrew grows up to a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″).
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 ornate shrew (Sorex ornatus), is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae (shrews). It is endemic to western North America, ranging from Northern California in the United States to Baja California in Mexico. Eight subspecies are known, including the extinct tule shrew (S. o. juncensis), known only from four specimens collected in 1905, and the Suisun ornate shrew (S. o. sinuosus), a species of conservation concern in California. Through skull morphology research and genetic testing on Ornate shrew populations, it has been shown that there are three main genetic subdivisions: The Southern, Central and Northern. These three genetic subdivisions of Ornate shrew arose from populations of Ornate shrews getting geographically isolated from other populations.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Ornate shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Mexican small-eared shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Moonshine shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eurasian least shrew with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Etruscan shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tundra shrew with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Azumi shrew raching a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crosse’s shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Buettikofer’s shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Radde’s shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Trowbridge’s shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Ornate shrew
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Siberian zokor
- Marsh rice rat
- El Carrizo deer mouse
- Rock squirrel
- Pale fox
- European water vole
- Field vole
- Indian bush rat
- Wolf
- Madras treeshrew
Animals that get as old as a Ornate shrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1.42 years:
- Southern red-backed vole with 1.67 years
- Long-tailed planigale with 1.25 years
- Smoky shrew with 1.25 years
- Texas mouse with 1.5 years
- Alpine shrew with 1.25 years
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with 1.67 years
- Montane shrew with 1.33 years
- Himalayan mole with 1.5 years
- Southern red-backed vole with 1.67 years
- Crawford’s gray shrew with 1.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Ornate shrew
What other animals weight around 5 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Java pipistrelle weighting 4 grams
- Dent’s shrew weighting 4 grams
- Laxmann’s shrew weighting 6 grams
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat weighting 5 grams
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew weighting 6 grams
- Saussure’s shrew weighting 4 grams
- Eastern forest bat weighting 5 grams
- Proboscis bat weighting 4 grams
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat weighting 4 grams
- Tiny fat mouse weighting 5 grams
Animals with the same size as a Ornate shrew
Also reaching around 4.9 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Fringed myotis gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Daubenton’s bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian least shrew gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy shrew tenrec gets as big as 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern little yellow-eared bat gets as big as 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat gets as big as 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cinereus shrew gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wagner’s mustached bat gets as big as 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Inyo shrew gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)