It is hard to guess what a Glacier Bay water shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Glacier Bay water shrew (Sorex alaskanus) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Glacier Bay water shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 27 cm (0′ 11″).
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 Glacier Bay water shrew (Sorex alaskanus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Alaska in the United States. It can swim underwater, and when it stops swimming, air trapped in its fur lets it float back up to the surface. Owing to small hairs on its feet, the water shrew can run across the water. Its fur is water resistant, although if it does get wet it returns to shore to dry itself with its hind feet. It eats aquatic fly nymphs and terrestrial invertebrates.
Animals of the same family as a Glacier Bay water shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Fox’s shrew with a weight of 21 grams
- Bottego’s shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Flat-skulled shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Crosse’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Dwarf shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Mediterranean water shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Large-toothed shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Blackish small-eared shrew with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Glacier Bay water shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex alaskanus:
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Small vesper mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Long-tongued nectar bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Greater forest shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Ozimops beccarii bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Western pygmy possum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Savanna path shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Little big-eyed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus hilli bringing 13 grams to the scale