It is hard to guess what a Chinese shrew mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chinese shrew mole (Uropsilus soricipes) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Chinese shrew mole is from the family Talpidae (genus: Uropsilus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″).
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 Chinese shrew mole (Uropsilus soricipes) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to China, Sichuan Province. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
Animals of the same family as a Chinese shrew mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Small Japanese mole with a weight of 65 grams
- Pyrenean desman with a weight of 60 grams
- Japanese mole with a weight of 82 grams
- Blind mole with a weight of 70 grams
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- True’s shrew mole with a weight of 15 grams
- True’s shrew mole with a weight of 14 grams
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Russian desman with a weight of 420 grams
- Hairy-tailed mole with a weight of 51 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chinese shrew mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Uropsilus soricipes:
- Halcyon horseshoe bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Parnell’s mustached bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew tenrec bringing 13 grams to the scale
- New Guinean planigale bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Little long-tailed dunnart bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tongued bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Little big-eyed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Gerbil mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Chinese shrew mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chinese shrew mole:
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Usambara shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Red fruit bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser ranee mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jamaican flower bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)