How many baby Smoky white-toothed shrews are in a litter?
A Smoky white-toothed shrew (Crocidura fumosa) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Crocidura). An adult Smoky white-toothed shrew grows up to a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 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 white-toothed shrew (Crocidura fumosa) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Smoky white-toothed shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Smoky shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tien Shan shrew raching a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fox’s shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cinereus shrew with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Wimmer’s shrew weighting only 23 grams
- Shinto shrew raching a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Therese’s shrew weighting only 17 grams
- Saussure’s shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Etruscan shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Smoky white-toothed shrew
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Brush mouse
- Japanese mountain mole
- Malayan field rat
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse
- Slender harvest mouse
- Thylacine
- Cheetah
- Cape York rat
- Whitehead’s spiny rat
- Allen’s squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky white-toothed shrew
What other animals weight around 14 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Bogotá grass mouse weighting 13 grams
- Moonshine shrew weighting 13 grams
- Molossops planirostris weighting 12 grams
- Large-eared slit-faced bat weighting 14 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat weighting 15 grams
- Southern dog-faced bat weighting 12 grams
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew weighting 12 grams
- Little wood mouse weighting 14 grams
- Kilimanjaro shrew weighting 16 grams
- Brown mastiff bat weighting 15 grams