How many baby Taiwanese brown-toothed shrews are in a litter?
A Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew (Soriculus fumidus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Soriculus). 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:
- Transcaucasian water shrew raching a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Crocidura grandiceps weighting only 23 grams
- Doucet’s musk shrew weighting only 4 grams
- Etruscan shrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Salenski’s shrew weighting only 5 grams
- Eisentraut’s shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wimmer’s shrew weighting only 23 grams
- Trowbridge’s shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Crowned shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Madagascan pygmy shrew weighting only 2 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Chinese bamboo rat
- Hog badger
- Southern mole vole
- Rock vole
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
- Savanna gerbil
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse
- Handleyomys melanotis
- Temminck’s mouse
- Nicobar shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
What other animals weight around 6 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Trowbridge’s shrew weighting 5 grams
- Chestnut-bellied shrew weighting 7 grams
- Dormer’s bat weighting 6 grams
- Malayan horseshoe bat weighting 6 grams
- Brown pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat weighting 7 grams
- Pomona roundleaf bat weighting 6 grams
- Bobrinski’s serotine weighting 7 grams
- Tricolored bat weighting 5 grams
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat weighting 6 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:
- Chinese shrew gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat gets as big as 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s pocket mouse gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- American water shrew gets as big as 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat gets as big as 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Shinto shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Somali pygmy gerbil gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Red fruit bat gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)