It is hard to guess what a Elliot’s short-tailed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Elliot’s short-tailed shrew (Blarina hylophaga) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Elliot’s short-tailed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Blarina). 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.
Elliot’s short-tailed shrew (Blarina hylophaga) is a small, slate grey, short-tailed species of shrew. Its common name comes from Daniel Giraud Elliot, who first described the species in 1899.
Animals of the same family as a Elliot’s short-tailed shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Doucet’s musk shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Long-tailed shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Asian house shrew with a weight of 43 grams
- Crocidura grandiceps with a weight of 23 grams
- Greater dwarf shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Himalayan shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Mindanao shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Bottego’s shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Bornean water shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Egyptian pygmy shrew with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Elliot’s short-tailed shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Blarina hylophaga:
- Flat-skulled shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Bates’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Silky short-tailed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Acuminate horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Cape hairy bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Isabelle’s ghost bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Ussuri shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Southern yellow bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat bringing 14 grams to the scale