It is hard to guess what a Elegant water shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Elegant water shrew (Nectogale elegans) on average weights 38 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Elegant water shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Nectogale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 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 elegant water shrew (Nectogale elegans) is a species of mammal in the subfamily Soricinae of the family Soricidae. It is monotypic within the genus Nectogale. It lives in Sikkim and China.
Animals of the same family as a Elegant water shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Southern short-tailed shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Kilimanjaro shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Lesser dwarf shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Turbo shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Ussuri shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Merida small-eared shrew with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Elegant water shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nectogale elegans:
- Woolley’s false antechinus bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- JunÃn grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Asian house shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Midas free-tailed bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Hatt’s vesper rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- White-bellied slender opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Medje free-tailed bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys alfaroi bringing 33 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Elegant water shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Elegant water shrew:
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Savanna path shrew with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Blind mole with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)