It is hard to guess what a Bicolored shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bicolored shrew (Crocidura leucodon) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Bicolored shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.4 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Bicolored 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 shrew or bicoloured white-toothed shrew (Crocidura leucodon) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in eastern, central and southern Europe and in western Asia. It is a nocturnal species and feeds on insects and other small creatures. Several litters of young are born during the warmer months of the year in a nest of dry grasses in a concealed location.
Animals of the same family as a Bicolored shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Egyptian pygmy shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Smoky white-toothed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Turbo shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Apennine shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Zarudny’s rock shrew with 5 babies per litter
- Negros shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Crocidura grandiceps with a weight of 23 grams
- Goliath shrew with a weight of 87 grams
- Malayan water shrew with a weight of 55 grams
- Chestnut-bellied shrew with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bicolored shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura leucodon:
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Little native mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Common planigale bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Northern broad-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Greater dog-like bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Bushveld horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-tongued bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Southern yellow bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Cape horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Bicolored shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Bicolored shrew:
- Short-nosed harvest mouse
- Himalayan field rat
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Western chestnut mouse
- Small Japanese mole
- Water opossum
- Pygmy hog
- Cotton mouse
- Black-backed jackal
- Swamp musk shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bicolored shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bicolored shrew:
- Lutrine opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Red hocicudo with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Asian house shrew with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- African pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Kultarr with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Silvery mole-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years