It is hard to guess what a Greater forest shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater forest shrew (Sylvisorex ollula) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Greater forest shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sylvisorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″).
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 greater forest shrew (Sylvisorex ollula) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
Animals of the same family as a Greater forest shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Long-clawed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Kelaart’s long-clawed shrew with a weight of 36 grams
- Greater dwarf shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Dent’s shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Large-eared gray shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Asian house shrew with a weight of 43 grams
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ultimate shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Merriam’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Niobe’s shrew with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater forest shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sylvisorex ollula:
- Big brown bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Rufous trident bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Ipanema bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Intermediate roundleaf bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Volcano harvest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Large-eared slit-faced bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Small vesper mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater forest shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater forest shrew:
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s mole with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Spiny pocket mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Santa Cruz mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tufted pygmy squirrel with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)