It is hard to guess what a Bicolored musk shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bicolored musk shrew (Crocidura fuscomurina) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Bicolored musk shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Bicolored musk shrews have 3 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 bicolored musk shrew (Crocidura fuscomurina) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and hot deserts.
Animals of the same family as a Bicolored musk shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Ruwenzori shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Piebald shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Mount Lyell shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Trowbridge’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Vagrant shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored shrew with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bicolored musk shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura fuscomurina:
- Dormer’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- White-winged serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Laxmann’s shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Doucet’s musk shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Cape serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Eurasian pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Malayan pygmy shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Yankari shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus simplex bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bicolored musk shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bicolored musk shrew:
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Serotine bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fringed myotis with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bicolored musk shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Bicolored musk shrew: