How many baby Southeast Asian shrews are in a litter?
A Southeast Asian shrew (Crocidura fuliginosa) usually gives birth to around 1 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 Southeast Asian 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 Southeast Asian shrew (Crocidura fuliginosa) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Cambodia, India, China, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Southeast Asian shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Greater dwarf shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Savanna swamp shrew weighting only 19 grams
- Volcano shrew weighting only 3 grams
- Marsh shrew weighting only 15 grams
- Sahelian tiny shrew weighting only 6 grams
- Savanna path shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp musk shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mount Lyell shrew weighting only 5 grams
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Grasse’s shrew raching a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals that share a litter size with Southeast Asian shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Koslov’s pika
- South Andean deer
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- Sangihe tarsier
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat
- Brown fur seal
- California mouse
- Red-eared guenon
Animals with the same weight as a Southeast Asian shrew
What other animals weight around 12 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Yellow serotine weighting 10 grams
- Bogotá grass mouse weighting 13 grams
- Fulvous harvest mouse weighting 11 grams
- Rufous mouse opossum weighting 14 grams
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat weighting 14 grams
- Bini free-tailed bat weighting 11 grams
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat weighting 11 grams
- Brants’s climbing mouse weighting 10 grams
- Western bent-winged bat weighting 14 grams
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat weighting 10 grams