How many baby Taiwanese brown-toothed shrews are in a litter?
A Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew (Episoriculus fumidus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 674 grams (1.49 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Episoriculus). An adult Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew grows up to a size of 6.7 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 Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew (Episoriculus fumidus) is a species of shrew in the Nectogalini tribe. It is found only in Taiwan. It prefers dense ground cover in forests and subalpine shrublands in high mountains of central Taiwan.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- North American least shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Greater stripe-backed shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Etruscan shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Luzon shrew weighting only 10 grams
- Jouvenet’s shrew weighting only 9 grams
- Gansu shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Fraser’s musk shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Canarian shrew weighting only 7 grams
- Saharan shrew weighting only 6 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Indian long-eared hedgehog
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Deroo’s mouse
- Small Japanese mole
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Mesquite mouse
- Ochre mole-rat
- Numbat
- Rajah spiny rat
- Acacia rat
Animals with the same weight as a Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
What other animals weight around 6 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Savi’s pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- Eastern long-fingered bat weighting 7 grams
- De Winton’s long-eared bat weighting 6 grams
- Dent’s horseshoe bat weighting 6 grams
- Sooty mustached bat weighting 5 grams
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat weighting 5 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat weighting 7 grams
- Argentine brown bat weighting 7 grams
- Merriam’s shrew weighting 5 grams
- Wagner’s mustached bat weighting 7 grams
Animals with the same size as a Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
Also reaching around 6.7 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Sinaloan pocket mouse gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Egyptian tomb bat gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grant’s golden mole gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater white-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Horsfield’s shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- San Joaquin pocket mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hazel dormouse gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)