It is hard to guess what a Drouhard’s shrew tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Drouhard’s shrew tenrec (Microgale drouhardi) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Drouhard’s shrew tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Microgale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.3 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.
Drouhard’s shrew tenrec (Microgale drouhardi), also known as the striped shrew tenrec, is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Drouhard’s shrew tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 3 grams
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec with a weight of 18 grams
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a weight of 35 grams
- Tailless tenrec with a weight of 894 grams
- Giant otter shrew with a weight of 685 grams
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 22 grams
- Montane shrew tenrec with a weight of 13 grams
- Lowland streaked tenrec with a weight of 129 grams
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 37 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Drouhard’s shrew tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microgale drouhardi:
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Little native mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Mexican free-tailed bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Taiga shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Large rufous horseshoe bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Thick-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Little free-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Silver fruit-eating bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Dark kangaroo mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Drouhard’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 Drouhard’s shrew tenrec:
- Long-eared flying mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater white-toothed shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)