It is hard to guess what a Flat-headed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Flat-headed shrew (Crocidura planiceps) on average weights 2 grams (0 lbs).
The Flat-headed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.8 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Flat-headed shrews have 3 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 flat-headed shrew (Crocidura planiceps) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Uganda. The flat-headed shrew is listed as Data Deficient (DD), inadequate information to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction, on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
Animals of the same family as a Flat-headed shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Zacatecas shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Arizona shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Wimmer’s shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Bates’s shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Chinese water shrew with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Scaly-footed small-eared shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Moon forest shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Shinto shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same weight as a Flat-headed shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura planiceps:
- Madagascan pygmy shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Pipistrellus mimus bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Arizona shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Borneo roundleaf bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Tiny pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Desert pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Least woolly bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Himalayan whiskered bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Dark sheath-tailed bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Mauritanian shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Flat-headed shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Flat-headed shrew: