It is hard to guess what a Crosse’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Crosse’s shrew (Crocidura crossei) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Crosse’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.8 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Crosse’s shrews have 3 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.
Crosse’s shrew (Crocidura crossei) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Animals of the same family as a Crosse’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Mauritanian shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Kongana shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Hildegarde’s shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Therese’s shrew with a weight of 17 grams
- Rainey’s shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Montane white-toothed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Marsh shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Savanna path shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Madagascan pygmy shrew with a weight of 2 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Crosse’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura crossei:
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Small mouse-tailed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Eurasian harvest mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Hoary wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus sedulus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Arctic shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s mustached bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Crosse’s shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Crosse’s shrew: