It is hard to guess what a Least shrew tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Least shrew tenrec (Microgale pusilla) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Least shrew tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Microgale). 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 least shrew tenrec (Microgale pusilla) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, swamps, pastureland, and irrigated land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Least shrew tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a weight of 39 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a weight of 112 grams
- Giant otter shrew with a weight of 685 grams
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a weight of 35 grams
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 12 grams
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 22 grams
- Large-eared tenrec with a weight of 6 grams
- Highland streaked tenrec with a weight of 102 grams
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with a weight of 160 grams
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Least shrew tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microgale pusilla:
- Whiskered bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- American pygmy shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Curacao myotis bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Peters’s disk-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Angulate pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Inyo shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Pygmy shrew tenrec bringing 3 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Least shrew tenrec
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Least shrew tenrec:
- Moupin pika with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Velvety free-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern little yellow-eared bat with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a size of 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southeastern shrew with a size of 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)