It is hard to guess what a Greater white-toothed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Greater white-toothed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). They can live for up to 3.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Greater white-toothed shrews have 4 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 greater white-toothed shrew (Crocidura russula) is a small insectivorous mammal found in Europe and North Africa. It is the most common of the white-toothed shrews. This species is found along the Mediterranean, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Portugal; in addition, the Osorio shrew of the Canary island of Gran Canaria, originally described as a separate species (Crocidura osorio), was later discovered to be a population of introduced greater white-toothed shrew. Furthermore, a subspecies of the greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula ibicensis, is found on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza. In April 2008, the greater white-toothed shrew was discovered in Ireland as well. Its preferred habitats are grassland and woodland. It is slightly larger than the lesser white-toothed shrew but otherwise very similar and can often be distinguished only by close inspection of its teeth which are unpigmented.
Animals of the same family as a Greater white-toothed shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Doucet’s musk shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Ruwenzori shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Greater forest shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Scaly-footed small-eared shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Carmen Mountain shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Long-tailed shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Mindanao shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Lesser dwarf shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Dwarf shrew with a weight of 2 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater white-toothed shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura russula:
- Tricolored big-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Gnome fruit-eating bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Southern ningaui bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Damara woolly bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Reddish-gray musk shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Swamp musk shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Dwarf little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Eastern long-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Blackish small-eared shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater white-toothed shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater white-toothed shrew:
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Shinto shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Azumi shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater mouse-eared bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Honey possum with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater white-toothed shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Greater white-toothed shrew:
- Small five-toed jerboa
- Bush dog
- Tien Shan birch mouse
- Culpeo
- Mexican prairie dog
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Merriam’s chipmunk
- Least chipmunk
- Allen’s chipmunk
- California vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Greater white-toothed shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Greater white-toothed shrew:
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Etruscan shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Lesser bamboo rat with an average maximal age of 3.67 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Cape mole-rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 3.17 years