It is hard to guess what a Eastern rock elephant shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern rock elephant shrew (Elephantulus myurus) on average weights 59 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Eastern rock elephant shrew is from the family Macroscelididae (genus: Elephantulus). It is usually born with about 8 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 1.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.8 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Eastern rock elephant shrews can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 eastern rock elephant shrew or eastern rock sengi (Elephantulus myurus) is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. It is found in Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland and rocky areas.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern rock elephant shrew
We found other animals of the Macroscelididae family:
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with a weight of 535 grams
- Rufous elephant shrew with a weight of 52 grams
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a weight of 48 grams
- Checkered elephant shrew with a weight of 424 grams
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a weight of 45 grams
- Dusky elephant shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Western rock elephant shrew with a weight of 65 grams
- Black and rufous elephant shrew with a weight of 423 grams
- Dusky-footed elephant shrew with a weight of 57 grams
- Somali elephant shrew with a weight of 32 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern rock elephant shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Elephantulus myurus:
- Capricorn leaf-eared mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Mongolian gerbil bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Günther’s vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Gray-collared chipmunk bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Gould’s mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Alexander’s bush squirrel bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Jentink’s flying squirrel bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys megacephalus bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Target rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Gray leaf-eared mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Eastern rock elephant shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern rock elephant shrew:
- Tarabundí vole with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiapan deer mouse with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Arianus’s rat with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern rock elephant shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Eastern rock elephant shrew:
- Indian hog deer
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
- Soemmerring’s gazelle
- Buffy flower bat
- Giant panda
- Long-tongued nectar bat
- Tana River mangabey
- Hairy-legged vampire bat
- Vicuña
- Silvery gibbon
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eastern rock elephant shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eastern rock elephant shrew:
- Meadow vole with an average maximal age of 0.92 years
- Crawford’s gray shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Cotton mouse with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Myosorex varius with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Smoky shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Crowned shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Wood lemming with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years