How many baby Short-snouted elephant shrews are in a litter?
A Short-snouted elephant shrew (Elephantulus brachyrhynchus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 10.48 kg (23.11 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Macroscelididae family (genus: Elephantulus). An adult Short-snouted elephant shrew grows up to a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″).
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 short-snouted elephant shrew or short-snouted sengi (Elephantulus brachyrhynchus) is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. It is found over a wide area of Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Other animals of the family Macroscelididae
Short-snouted elephant shrew is a member of the Macroscelididae, as are these animals:
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black and rufous elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Checkered elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Four-toed elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western rock elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Somali elephant shrew weighting only 32 grams
- Bushveld elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- North African elephant shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Short-snouted elephant shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Oribi
- Southeastern pocket gopher
- Green acouchi
- Siamang
- Davis’s round-eared bat
- Mountain goat
- Malayan porcupine
- Little red brocket
- Long-tailed pangolin
- Parti-coloured bat
Animals with the same weight as a Short-snouted elephant shrew
What other animals weight around 45 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Midas free-tailed bat weighting 45 grams
- Yellow-pine chipmunk weighting 50 grams
- Least chipmunk weighting 42 grams
- Mexican deer mouse weighting 42 grams
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat weighting 44 grams
- Pale spear-nosed bat weighting 36 grams
- Dark bolo mouse weighting 40 grams
- Lesser tree mouse weighting 45 grams
- White-footed climbing mouse weighting 40 grams
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 42 grams
Animals with the same size as a Short-snouted elephant shrew
Also reaching around 11.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Typical striped grass mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Elegant water shrew gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Peromyscus maniculatus gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pocock’s highland rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Irenomys gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Zempoaltepec gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian slender opossum gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gunning’s golden mole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)