It is hard to guess what a Alpine shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Alpine shrew (Sorex alpinus) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Alpine shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). They can live for up to 1.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Alpine shrews have 5 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The alpine shrew (Sorex alpinus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in the alpine meadows and coniferous forests of Southern European mountain ranges: the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Carpathian Mountains and the Balkans.
Animals of the same family as a Alpine shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Crocidura grandiceps with a weight of 23 grams
- Mount Lyell shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Buettikofer’s shrew with 2 babies per litter
- Salenski’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Canarian shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Inyo shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Himalayan shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Bornean water shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yankari shrew with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Alpine shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex alpinus:
- Arizona myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Tasmanian pygmy possum bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Pygmy gerbil bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Crosse’s shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Western barbastelle bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Honey possum bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Lander’s horseshoe bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Emilia’s gracile opossum bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Alpine shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Alpine shrew:
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crowned shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Azumi shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common noctule with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cinereus shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Alpine shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Alpine shrew:
- Persian jird
- House mouse
- Shaw’s jird
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
- Olive-backed pocket mouse
- Norway lemming
- Crowned shrew
- Sminthopsis laniger
- Western jumping mouse
- Variegated squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Alpine shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Alpine shrew:
- Smoky shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Brush mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Wood lemming with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Arctic shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Trowbridge’s shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Texas mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Hottentot golden mole with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Crowned shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years