It is hard to guess what a Bushveld elephant shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bushveld elephant shrew (Elephantulus intufi) on average weights 48 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Bushveld elephant shrew is from the family Macroscelididae (genus: Elephantulus). It is usually born with about 10 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 8.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Bushveld elephant shrews have 1 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 bushveld elephant shrew or bushveld sengi (Elephantulus intufi) is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and hot deserts.
Animals of the same family as a Bushveld elephant shrew
We found other animals of the Macroscelididae family:
- Macroscelides proboscideus with a weight of 38 grams
- Western rock elephant shrew with a weight of 65 grams
- Black and rufous elephant shrew with a weight of 423 grams
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with a weight of 59 grams
- Four-toed elephant shrew with a weight of 201 grams
- Cape elephant shrew with a weight of 49 grams
- Dusky elephant shrew with 1 babies per litter
- North African elephant shrew with a weight of 43 grams
- Somali elephant shrew with a weight of 32 grams
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with a weight of 535 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bushveld elephant shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Elephantulus intufi:
- Andean rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Dolorous grass mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Winkelmann’s mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Tawny deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Flat-faced fruit-eating bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Typical striped grass mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bushveld elephant shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bushveld elephant shrew:
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray slender opossum with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern caenolestid with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-footed chipmunk with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bushveld elephant shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bushveld elephant shrew:
- Sharpe’s grysbok
- Common brown lemur
- Collared peccary
- Diana monkey
- Red-tailed sportive lemur
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
- Ghost bat
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat
- Melck’s house bat
- Giant armadillo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bushveld elephant shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bushveld elephant shrew:
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Black-shouldered opossum with an average maximal age of 7.83 years
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Red-flanked duiker with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Gray dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Feathertail glider with an average maximal age of 7.17 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with an average maximal age of 8.58 years
- Mountain degu with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Maned rat with an average maximal age of 7.5 years