How many baby Vagrant shrews are in a litter?
A Vagrant shrew (Sorex vagrans) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 20 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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: Sorex). An adult Vagrant shrew grows up to a size of 6.4 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 vagrant shrew (Sorex vagrans), also known as the wandering shrew, is a medium-sized North American shrew. At one time, the montane shrew and the Orizaba long-tailed shrew were considered to belong to the same species.
Other animals of the family Soricidae
Vagrant shrew is a member of the Soricidae, as are these animals:
- Smith’s shrew raching a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern short-tailed shrew with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hero shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mount Cameroon forest shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mauritanian shrew weighting only 2 grams
- Bornean water shrew raching a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Blackish small-eared shrew weighting only 8 grams
- Bottego’s shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bicolored musk shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew weighting only 14 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Vagrant shrew
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart
- Tristram’s jird
- Western jumping mouse
- Long-tailed pocket mouse
- Mongolian hamster
- Daurian ground squirrel
- Red wolf
- Pale field rat
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Wyoming ground squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Vagrant shrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.08 years:
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with 2.33 years
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with 2.5 years
- Honey possum with 2 years
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with 2 years
- Tundra vole with 1.75 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with 2 years
- Grant’s golden mole with 2 years
- White-footed dunnart with 2.5 years
- Eastern harvest mouse with 2.17 years
- Cinnamon antechinus with 2 years
Animals with the same weight as a Vagrant shrew
What other animals weight around 5 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Lesser horseshoe bat weighting 4 grams
- African pygmy mouse weighting 6 grams
- Maclaud’s horseshoe bat weighting 4 grams
- Pygmy long-eared bat weighting 4 grams
- Montane shrew weighting 6 grams
- Southern forest bat weighting 5 grams
- Dark long-tongued bat weighting 6 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse weighting 6 grams
- Sahelian tiny shrew weighting 6 grams
- Gray sac-winged bat weighting 6 grams
Animals with the same size as a Vagrant shrew
Also reaching around 6.4 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Bicolored musk shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-sided opossum gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arizona shrew gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Natal multimammate mouse gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arctic shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pacific shrew gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)