It is hard to guess what a Incan caenolestid weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Incan caenolestid (Lestoros inca) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Incan caenolestid is from the family Caenolestidae (genus: Lestoros). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.9 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 Incan caenolestid (Lestoros inca), also known as the Incan shrew opossum or Peruvian caenolestid, is a caenolestid found in the southern Peruvian Andes. It was first described by English zoologist Oldfield Thomas in 1917. The head-and-body length ranges from 9 to 11.5 centimetres (3.5 to 4.5 in), and the weight is between 25 and 32 grams (0.88 and 1.13 oz). It is brown on the back, and lighter on the underside. Little is known about the behaviour of the Incan caenolestid; it appears to be terrestrial and nocturnal. It feeds on small invertebrates and insects. This caenolestid inhabits elfin and secondary forests. The IUCN classifies it as least concern.
Animals of the same family as a Incan caenolestid
We found other animals of the Caenolestidae family:
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a weight of 40 grams
- Dusky caenolestid with a weight of 29 grams
- Andean caenolestid with a weight of 47 grams
- Northern caenolestid with a weight of 31 grams
- Long-nosed caenolestid with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Incan caenolestid
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lestoros inca:
- Père David’s vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Bailey’s pocket mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Juliana’s golden mole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys flavescens bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Peruvian vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Hairy harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Schreber’s yellow bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Incan caenolestid
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Incan caenolestid:
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Spiny pocket mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western jumping mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- California red tree mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big-eared woolly bat with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s vole with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandstone false antechinus with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)