How many baby Usambara shrews are in a litter?
A Usambara shrew (Crocidura usambarae) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Soricidae family (genus: Crocidura). An adult Usambara shrew grows up to a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Usambara shrew (Crocidura usambarae) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Tanzania. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Usambara shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Andean small-eared shrew weighting only 11 grams
- Mount Kenya mole shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Savanna path shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Transcaucasian water shrew raching a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew weighting only 14 grams
- Climbing shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mauritanian shrew weighting only 2 grams
- Asian house shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Large-eared gray shrew weighting only 5 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Usambara shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lesser tree mouse
- Red-necked pademelon
- Ashy black titi
- Southeastern myotis
- Llama
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Dormer’s bat
- Preuss’s monkey
- Madagascan fruit bat
- Spectacled hare-wallaby
Animals with the same weight as a Usambara shrew
What other animals weight around 11 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Yellow serotine weighting 10 grams
- Andean small-eared shrew weighting 11 grams
- Pleasant gerbil weighting 13 grams
- Broad-eared bat weighting 13 grams
- Southern pygmy mouse weighting 9 grams
- Tailed tailless bat weighting 10 grams
- Fulvous harvest mouse weighting 11 grams
- Northern bat weighting 10 grams
- Rufous trident bat weighting 13 grams
- Common shrew weighting 9 grams
Animals with the same size as a Usambara shrew
Also reaching around 7.9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Sinaloan pocket mouse gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Madagascan flying fox gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malagasy serotine gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ranee mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwan field mouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater broad-nosed bat gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)