It is hard to guess what a Cowan’s shrew tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cowan’s shrew tenrec (Microgale cowani) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Cowan’s shrew tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Microgale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.3 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.
Cowan’s shrew tenrec (Microgale cowani) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae.
Animals of the same family as a Cowan’s shrew tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Least shrew tenrec with a weight of 3 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 4 grams
- Giant otter shrew with a weight of 685 grams
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 45 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a weight of 112 grams
- Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 10 grams
- Tailless tenrec with a weight of 894 grams
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with a weight of 160 grams
- Web-footed tenrec with a weight of 77 grams
- Large-eared tenrec with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cowan’s shrew tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microgale cowani:
- Microryzomys minutus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Dwarf bonneted bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Greater long-tailed hamster bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Western harvest mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Tacarcuna bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Black-gilded pipistrelle bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Spotted-winged fruit bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Merida small-eared shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cowan’s shrew tenrec
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cowan’s shrew tenrec:
- Paratriaenops furculus with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nubra pika with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Iberian shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Olive-backed pocket mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser ranee mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)