It is hard to guess what a Jouvenet’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Jouvenet’s shrew (Crocidura jouvenetae) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Jouvenet’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.3 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Jouvenet’s shrew (Crocidura jouvenetae) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. This species is present in lowland tropical moist forest and possibly in montane forest.
Animals of the same family as a Jouvenet’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Greater stripe-backed shrew with 4 babies per litter
- Hero shrew with a weight of 91 grams
- Bates’s shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Long-tailed shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Madagascan pygmy shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Least dwarf shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Pacific shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Canarian shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Malayan pygmy shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Hildegarde’s shrew with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Jouvenet’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura jouvenetae:
- Micronomus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Black-clawed brush-furred rat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Long-legged myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Damara woolly bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Western barbastelle bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Brants’s climbing mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris brachyotis bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Northern broad-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Wongai ningaui bringing 9 grams to the scale