It is hard to guess what a Gray-bellied caenolestid weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray-bellied caenolestid (Caenolestes caniventer) on average weights 40 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Gray-bellied caenolestid is from the family Caenolestidae (genus: Caenolestes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.1 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Gray-bellied caenolestids have 2 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 gray-bellied caenolestid (Caenolestes caniventer), or grey-bellied shrew opossum, is a shrew opossum found in humid, temperate forests and moist grasslands of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. It was first described by American zoologist Harold Elmer Anthony in 1921. Little is known about the behavior of the gray-bellied caenolestid. It appears to be terrestrial (land-living) and crepuscular (active around twilight) or nocturnal (active at night). Diet consists of invertebrate larvae, small vertebrates and plant material. The IUCN classifies the gray-bellied caenolestid as near threatened.
Animals of the same family as a Gray-bellied caenolestid
We found other animals of the Caenolestidae family:
- Long-nosed caenolestid with a weight of 21 grams
- Incan caenolestid with a weight of 23 grams
- Dusky caenolestid with a weight of 29 grams
- Andean caenolestid with a weight of 47 grams
- Northern caenolestid with a weight of 31 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-bellied caenolestid
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Caenolestes caniventer:
- Himalayan striped squirrel bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Jalapan pine vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Andean big-eared mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed gerbil bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed dasyure bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Little collared fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Aztec mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Woolley’s false antechinus bringing 43 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gray-bellied caenolestid
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray-bellied caenolestid:
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sulawesi rousette with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-haired water rat with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape elephant shrew with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cape golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray-bellied caenolestid
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Gray-bellied caenolestid: