It is hard to guess what a Crowned shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Crowned shrew (Sorex coronatus) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Crowned shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). They can live for up to 1.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Crowned shrews can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 crowned shrew or Millet’s shrew (Sorex coronatus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the British island of Jersey. It is almost indistinguishable from the common shrew, its habitatal preferences and habits are identical. However it has a different karyotype, is slightly smaller, and has small morphological differences, such as a longer rostrum (upper tooth-row and mandible) relative to length of skull.
Animals of the same family as a Crowned shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Chinese water shrew with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ugandan musk shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Fraser’s musk shrew with a weight of 17 grams
- Eisentraut’s shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Malayan pygmy shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Greater white-toothed shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southeastern shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- East African highland shrew with 3 babies per litter
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same weight as a Crowned shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex coronatus:
- Swamp musk shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Chestnut climbing mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Darling’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Evening bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Gray long-tongued bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Yellow serotine bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Crowned shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Crowned shrew:
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Canyon mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed musk shrew with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fat mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Balochistan gerbil with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Crowned shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Crowned shrew:
- Cutch rat
- Rufous mouse opossum
- American pygmy shrew
- Montane shrew
- Meadow jumping mouse
- Dusky slender opossum
- Alston’s cotton rat
- Dark bolo mouse
- Mexican ground squirrel
- Pacific jumping mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Crowned shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Crowned shrew:
- Smoky shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Wood lemming with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Hottentot golden mole with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Meadow vole with an average maximal age of 0.92 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Long-tailed planigale with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Cotton mouse with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Alpine shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years