How many baby Savanna path shrews are in a litter?
A Savanna path shrew (Crocidura viaria) 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 Savanna path shrew grows up to a size of 8.8 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 savanna path shrew (Crocidura viaria) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, and heavily degraded former forest.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Savanna path shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Dent’s shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Zacatecas shrew weighting only 7 grams
- Saharan shrew weighting only 6 grams
- Somali shrew weighting only 11 grams
- Southeastern shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Cinereus shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Mount Cameroon forest shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s shrew weighting only 7 grams
- Eurasian water shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Common shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Savanna path shrew
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
- Dark-tailed tree rat
- Capybara
- Jentink’s dormouse
- Little native mouse
- Eastern woodrat
- Polynesian rat
- European pine marten
- Swamp musk shrew
- Fat-tailed gerbil
Animals with the same weight as a Savanna path shrew
What other animals weight around 16 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Long-tailed dunnart weighting 18 grams
- Ruwenzori shrew weighting 18 grams
- Bates’s shrew weighting 16 grams
- Desert pocket mouse weighting 15 grams
- Bogotá grass mouse weighting 13 grams
- Botta’s serotine weighting 15 grams
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat weighting 19 grams
- Small vesper mouse weighting 14 grams
- White-footed mouse weighting 18 grams
- Blackish grass mouse weighting 19 grams
Animals with the same size as a Savanna path shrew
Also reaching around 8.8 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fresno kangaroo rat gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu mole gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican shrew gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-backed vole gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hispid pocket mouse gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bastard big-footed mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)