How many baby Siberian large-toothed shrews are in a litter?
A Siberian large-toothed shrew (Sorex daphaenodon) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 90 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Sorex). An adult Siberian large-toothed shrew grows up to a size of 7.1 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 Siberian large-toothed shrew (Sorex daphaenodon) is a species of shrew. An adult Siberian large-toothed shrew has a weight of 4.6-6.0 grams and a body length of 5.5-6.4 centimeters, with a tail of 2.4-3.75 centimeters. This species is found across Northeast Asia, from Mongolia through northeastern China to the Russian Far East and the Paektusan region of North Korea.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Siberian large-toothed shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- East African highland shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Smoky white-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gansu shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Tundra shrew with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew weighting only 6 grams
- Pacific shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Moon forest shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Climbing shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese water shrew raching a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals that share a litter size with Siberian large-toothed shrew
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Tundra vole
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
- Gray marmot
- Kultarr
- Long-tailed vole
- Reed vole
- Black-capped marmot
- Caucasian snow vole
- Olive-backed pocket mouse
- Grey red-backed vole
Animals with the same weight as a Siberian large-toothed shrew
What other animals weight around 8 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Bicolored roundleaf bat weighting 8 grams
- Hairy slit-faced bat weighting 7 grams
- Hodgson’s bat weighting 7 grams
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle weighting 7 grams
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle weighting 7 grams
- Jouvenet’s shrew weighting 9 grams
- Chestnut sac-winged bat weighting 9 grams
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat weighting 8 grams
- Seminole bat weighting 9 grams
- Crosse’s shrew weighting 8 grams
Animals with the same size as a Siberian large-toothed shrew
Also reaching around 7.1 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Tundra shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale kangaroo mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Smith’s shrew gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-clawed shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater mouse-tailed bat gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Antillean fruit-eating bat gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese shrew gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Smoky shrew gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)