It is hard to guess what a Large-eared gray shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Large-eared gray shrew (Notiosorex evotis) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Large-eared gray shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Notiosorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.6 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 large-eared gray shrew (Notiosorex evotis) is a species of shrew.
Animals of the same family as a Large-eared gray shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Crawford’s gray shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Therese’s shrew with a weight of 17 grams
- Elegant water shrew with a weight of 38 grams
- Japanese water shrew with a weight of 36 grams
- Jouvenet’s shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Wimmer’s shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Swamp musk shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Malayan pygmy shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Johnston’s forest shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same weight as a Large-eared gray shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Notiosorex evotis:
- Spurred roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Ornate shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Peters’s musk shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Benito roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Eurasian pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Red myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Least long-fingered bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Malayan pygmy shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Large-eared gray shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Large-eared gray shrew:
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Montane grass mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a size of 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cuban flower bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater white-toothed shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser ranee mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)