How many baby Southeastern shrews are in a litter?
A Southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 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 Southeastern shrew grows up to a size of 5.1 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 southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in the southeastern United States.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Southeastern shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Climbing shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kongana shrew weighting only 5 grams
- Transcaucasian water shrew raching a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Carmen Mountain shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Sclater’s shrew weighting only 7 grams
- Salenski’s shrew weighting only 5 grams
- Blackish small-eared shrew weighting only 8 grams
- Swamp musk shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Aberdare mole shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese water shrew weighting only 36 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Southeastern shrew
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Nephelomys albigularis
- Sable
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
- Kobe mole
- Whitehead’s spiny rat
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Ash-grey mouse
- Broad-footed mole
- Woolly hare
- Slender harvest mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Southeastern shrew
What other animals weight around 3 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Whiskered bat weighting 3 grams
- American pygmy shrew weighting 3 grams
- Ashy roundleaf bat weighting 3 grams
- Volcano shrew weighting 3 grams
- Heller’s pipistrelle weighting 3 grams
- Thick-thumbed myotis weighting 3 grams
- Somali serotine weighting 3 grams
- Frosted sac-winged bat weighting 3 grams
- Whitehead’s woolly bat weighting 3 grams
- Tiny yellow bat weighting 3 grams
Animals with the same size as a Southeastern shrew
Also reaching around 5.1 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Daubenton’s bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender shrew gets as big as 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)