It is hard to guess what a Inyo shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Inyo shrew (Sorex tenellus) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Inyo shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.2 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.
The Inyo shrew (Sorex tenellus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.
Animals of the same family as a Inyo shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Johnston’s forest shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Marsh shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Arizona shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jouvenet’s shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Southeast Asian shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Baird’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Southern short-tailed shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Long-tailed shrew with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Inyo shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex tenellus:
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Johnston’s forest shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Tiny yellow bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thumbless bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Least shrew tenrec bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Inyo shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Inyo shrew:
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little brown bat with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Panamint kangaroo rat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Cinereus shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southeastern shrew with a size of 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)