It is hard to guess what a Jackson’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Jackson’s shrew (Crocidura jacksoni) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Jackson’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.4 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Jackson’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.
Jackson’s shrew (Crocidura jacksoni) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and heavily degraded former forest.
Animals of the same family as a Jackson’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Nigerian shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Mexican small-eared shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Slender shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Fraser’s musk shrew with a weight of 17 grams
- Dark-footed mouse shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Least dwarf shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Greater red musk shrew with a weight of 31 grams
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Andean small-eared shrew with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Jackson’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura jacksoni:
- Malayan horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Egyptian pygmy shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus simplex bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Hodgson’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Arizona myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Eurasian harvest mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Rendall’s serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Bourret’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Gambian slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Jackson’s shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Jackson’s shrew: