It is hard to guess what a Arizona shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Arizona shrew (Sorex arizonae) on average weights 2 grams (0 lbs).
The Arizona shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.8 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Arizona shrews can have babies 1 times a year.
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 Arizona shrew (Sorex arizonae) is a species of shrew native to North America.
Animals of the same family as a Arizona shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Bottego’s shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Common shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Preble’s shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Turbo shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Canarian shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Peters’s musk shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Fog shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Dsinezumi shrew with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Arizona shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex arizonae:
- Dark sheath-tailed bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Nyctophilus geoffroyi bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Borneo roundleaf bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Dwarf shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Flat-headed shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Madagascan pygmy shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Tiny pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Etruscan shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Black myotis bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Least woolly bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Arizona shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Arizona shrew:
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Temminck’s mouse with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern little yellow-eared bat with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Indiana bat with a size of 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)