It is hard to guess what a Cinereus shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cinereus shrew (Sorex cinereus) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Cinereus shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). They can live for up to 1.92 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Cinereus shrews have 6 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 cinereous shrew or masked shrew (Sorex cinereus) is a small shrew found in Alaska, Canada, and the northern United States. This is the most widely distributed shrew in North America, where it is also known as the common shrew.
Animals of the same family as a Cinereus shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Rainey’s shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Ugandan musk shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Asian house shrew with a weight of 43 grams
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Fog shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Crocidura grandiceps with a weight of 23 grams
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Andean small-eared shrew with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cinereus shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex cinereus:
- Flute-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Groove-toothed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Spix’s disk-winged bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Trinidad dog-like bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- California myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least dwarf shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Zulu serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least long-fingered bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cinereus shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cinereus shrew:
- Alpine shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian slit-faced bat with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a size of 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Vagrant shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Fulvous harvest mouse with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little native mouse with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cinereus shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Cinereus shrew:
- Maximowicz’s vole
- Bobak marmot
- Arctic ground squirrel
- Günther’s vole
- South African pouched mouse
- Bronze quoll
- Long-tailed weasel
- Afghan pika
- Brown antechinus
- North American brown lemming
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Cinereus shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Cinereus shrew:
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Fawn antechinus with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Hoary bat with an average maximal age of 2.08 years
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Wongai ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Norway lemming with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Vagrant shrew with an average maximal age of 2.08 years
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 1.75 years