It is hard to guess what a Horsfield’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Horsfield’s shrew (Crocidura horsfieldii) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Horsfield’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.4 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Horsfield’s shrews have 3 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.
Horsfield’s shrew (Crocidura horsfieldii) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae found in Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Animals of the same family as a Horsfield’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Himalayan water shrew with a weight of 33 grams
- Asian house shrew with a weight of 43 grams
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Ruwenzori shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Dsinezumi shrew with 4 babies per litter
- Rainey’s shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with a weight of 20 grams
- Therese’s shrew with a weight of 17 grams
- African giant shrew with a weight of 33 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Horsfield’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura horsfieldii:
- Yuma myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Elgon shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Keen’s myotis bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Eurasian pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket mouse bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Saharan shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Horsfield’s shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Horsfield’s shrew:
- Panamint kangaroo rat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian least shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Trowbridge’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Horsfield’s shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Horsfield’s shrew: