It is hard to guess what a Doucet’s musk shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Doucet’s musk shrew (Crocidura douceti) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Doucet’s musk shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.1 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.
Doucet’s musk shrew (Crocidura douceti) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Liberia, and possibly Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Animals of the same family as a Doucet’s musk shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Crocidura grandiceps with a weight of 23 grams
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Ludia’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Vagrant shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Iberian shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Mount Kenya mole shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Blackish small-eared shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- North American least shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Himalayan shrew with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Doucet’s musk shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura douceti:
- Elegant myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Saussure’s shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Riparian myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser bamboo bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Crawford’s gray shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Spix’s disk-winged bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Slender shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale