How many baby Slender shrews are in a litter?
A Slender shrew (Sorex gracillimus) 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 Slender shrew grows up to a size of 5.3 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 slender shrew (Sorex gracillimus) is a species of shrew. An adult slender shrew has a weight of 1.5-5.3 grams and a body length of 4.7-6.0 centimeters, with a tail of 4-5 centimeters; this makes it one of the smaller shrews found in its range. It is distributed across northeastern North Korea, HokkaidÅ, and the Russian Far East including the Kuril Islands.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Slender shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Goliath shrew weighting only 87 grams
- Hero shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-clawed shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Smith’s shrew raching a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bornean water shrew raching a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Kelaart’s long-clawed shrew weighting only 36 grams
- Kilimanjaro shrew weighting only 16 grams
- Least dwarf shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- American pygmy shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Slender shrew
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Mongolian gerbil
- Northern red-backed vole
- Soft-furred rat
- Lesser fat-tailed jerboa
- Grey red-backed vole
- Mearns’s pouched mouse
- Social vole
- Black rat
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel
- Long-clawed shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Slender shrew
What other animals weight around 4 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Delany’s mouse weighting 4 grams
- Clear-winged woolly bat weighting 4 grams
- Ridley’s bat weighting 4 grams
- Insular horseshoe bat weighting 4 grams
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat weighting 4 grams
- Proboscis bat weighting 4 grams
- Kerivoula hardwickei weighting 4 grams
- Zulu serotine weighting 4 grams
- Pipistrellus babu weighting 4 grams
- Trinidad dog-like bat weighting 4 grams
Animals with the same size as a Slender shrew
Also reaching around 5.3 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Saharan shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Parnell’s mustached bat gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dwarf shrew gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Orange leaf-nosed bat gets as big as 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Temminck’s mouse gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater bulldog bat gets as big as 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Southern little yellow-eared bat gets as big as 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Azumi shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew gets as big as 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)