It is hard to guess what a Himalayan water shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Himalayan water shrew (Chimarrogale himalayica) on average weights 33 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Himalayan water shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Chimarrogale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). Normally, Himalayan water shrews can have babies 3 times a year.
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 Himalayan water shrew (Chimarrogale himalayica) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in China, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, and Vietnam.
Animals of the same family as a Himalayan water shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Mexican shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Makwassie musk shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Grant’s forest shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Peters’s musk shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Ussuri shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Savanna swamp shrew with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Himalayan water shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chimarrogale himalayica:
- JunÃn grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Tarabundà vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Western mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Macroscelides proboscideus bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Luzon montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Small Luzon forest mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Himalayan water shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Himalayan water shrew:
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Irenomys with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-sided opossum with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- African wading rat with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)