It is hard to guess what a Eurasian least shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eurasian least shrew (Sorex minutissimus) on average weights 2 grams (0 lbs).
The Eurasian least shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Eurasian least shrews have 8 babies per litter.
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 Eurasian least shrew (Sorex minutissimus), also called the lesser pygmy shrew, is the second-smallest mammal by mass after the Etruscan shrew.
Animals of the same family as a Eurasian least shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Ugandan musk shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Salenski’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Greater forest shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Kivu shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Southeast Asian shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Grant’s forest shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Greater white-toothed shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Malayan pygmy shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Geata mouse shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eurasian least shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex minutissimus:
- Black myotis bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Madagascan pygmy shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Arizona shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Desert pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Least woolly bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Tiny pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Etruscan shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Dark sheath-tailed bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Borneo roundleaf bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Flat-headed shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Eurasian least shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eurasian least shrew:
- Ornate shrew with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rhinolophus hilli with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Least shrew tenrec with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat with a size of 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Velvety free-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eurasian least shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a Eurasian least shrew: