It is hard to guess what a Hildegarde’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hildegarde’s shrew (Crocidura hildegardeae) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Hildegarde’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Hildegarde’s shrew (Crocidura hildegardeae) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania. Considered by some authorities to be a subspecies of Crocidura gracilipes, it is now recognised as a separate species, with a chromosome number of 2n = 52. This is one of three species of small mammal named by the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas in honour of anthropologist Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde.
Animals of the same family as a Hildegarde’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Salenski’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Aberdare mole shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Flat-headed shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Chinese mole shrew with a weight of 20 grams
- Greater red musk shrew with a weight of 31 grams
- Moon forest shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Peters’s musk shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- African black shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Large-toothed shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Common shrew with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hildegarde’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura hildegardeae:
- Myosorex varius bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Usambara shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Silver-haired bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Eastern harvest mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Noack’s roundleaf bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Little free-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Greater dog-like bat bringing 9 grams to the scale