It is hard to guess what a Flat-skulled shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Flat-skulled shrew (Sorex roboratus) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Flat-skulled shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.3 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Flat-skulled shrews have 7 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-skulled shrew (Sorex roboratus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Mongolia, China and Russia.
Animals of the same family as a Flat-skulled shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Mexican small-eared shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Mexican long-tailed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- American water shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Large-toothed shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Prairie shrew with 7 babies per litter
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Dark-footed mouse shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Mount Kenya mole shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Saussure’s shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Merriam’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Flat-skulled shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex roboratus:
- Silver-haired bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Fulvous harvest mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Dwarf bonneted bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Chestnut short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Trefoil horseshoe bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Asian barbastelle bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Western bent-winged bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Ozimops beccarii bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Marsh shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Flat-skulled shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Flat-skulled shrew:
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cape serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ghost-faced bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pallas’s pika with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little native mouse with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Flat-skulled shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Flat-skulled shrew: