It is hard to guess what a Bottego’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bottego’s shrew (Crocidura bottegi) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Bottego’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.8 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Bottego’s shrews have 2 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.
Bottego’s shrew (Crocidura bottegi) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found 1,750 metres (5,740 ft) above sea level in Ethiopia and possibly Kenya particularly northeast of Lake Turkana and one in Kenya from Marsabit.
Animals of the same family as a Bottego’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Radde’s shrew with 2 babies per litter
- Greater dwarf shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Turbo shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Therese’s shrew with a weight of 17 grams
- Crosse’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Mount Lyell shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Smoky white-toothed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Kongana shrew with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bottego’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura bottegi:
- Heller’s pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Tiny yellow bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- American pygmy shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Volcano shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Arabian pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Pygmy shrew tenrec bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Ashy roundleaf bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thumbless bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Bottego’s shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Bottego’s shrew: