How many baby Smoky shrews are in a litter?
A Smoky shrew (Sorex fumeus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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 Smoky shrew grows up to a size of 7.2 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 smoky shrew (Sorex fumeus) is a medium-sized North American shrew found in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States and extends further south along the Appalachian Mountains.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Smoky shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Elegant water shrew weighting only 38 grams
- Malayan water shrew weighting only 55 grams
- Laxmann’s shrew with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Myosorex varius with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fox’s shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean water shrew raching a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Therese’s shrew weighting only 17 grams
- Scaly-footed small-eared shrew weighting only 11 grams
- East African highland shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Smoky shrew
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Wongai ningaui
- Little Indian field mouse
- Least weasel
- Silent dormouse
- Persian jird
- Long-tailed pocket mouse
- American water shrew
- Tristram’s jird
- Spectacled dormouse
- Long-tailed dwarf hamster
Animals that get as old as a Smoky shrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1.25 years:
- Townsend’s mole with 1.5 years
- Crawford’s gray shrew with 1.25 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with 1 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Texas mouse with 1.5 years
- Himalayan mole with 1.5 years
- Creeping vole with 1.25 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with 1.08 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky shrew
What other animals weight around 7 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Iberian shrew weighting 6 grams
- Saharan shrew weighting 6 grams
- Little pocket mouse weighting 8 grams
- Cape serotine weighting 6 grams
- Hairy slit-faced bat weighting 7 grams
- Mexican small-eared shrew weighting 7 grams
- Tasmanian pygmy possum weighting 8 grams
- Little native mouse weighting 8 grams
- São Tomé free-tailed bat weighting 7 grams
- Lesser long-fingered bat weighting 7 grams
Animals with the same size as a Smoky shrew
Also reaching around 7.2 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Great Basin pocket mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiga shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Balochistan gerbil gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Meadow jumping mouse gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese dormouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Shinto shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silky pocket mouse gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common noctule gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)