It is hard to guess what a Long-clawed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-clawed shrew (Sorex unguiculatus) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Long-clawed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). They can live for up to 1.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Long-clawed shrews can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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.
The long-clawed shrew (Sorex unguiculatus) is a species of shrew. An adult long-clawed shrew has a weight of less than 20 g and a body length of 54–97 mm, with a tail of 40–53 mm. It is distributed through the uplands of northeastern Asia, including northeastern North Korea.
Animals of the same family as a Long-clawed shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Etruscan shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Siberian large-toothed shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jackson’s shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Mount Cameroon forest shrew with 1 babies per litter
- African giant shrew with a weight of 33 grams
- Saharan shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Baird’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Crawford’s gray shrew with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-clawed shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex unguiculatus:
- Marsh shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Sandy inland mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Rufous mouse opossum bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Southern dog-faced bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- True’s shrew mole bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Gray short-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Eurasian water shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-clawed shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-clawed shrew:
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desert long-eared bat with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hairy big-eyed bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common blossom bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Marsh shrew with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hoary bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-clawed shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Long-clawed shrew:
- Paucident planigale
- Winter white dwarf hamster
- Yellow-necked mouse
- Tristram’s jird
- Grey red-backed vole
- Long-eared chipmunk
- Daurian pika
- Middendorf’s vole
- Water vole (North America)
- Euphrates jerboa
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Long-clawed shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Long-clawed shrew:
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Smoky shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Atlantic bamboo rat with an average maximal age of 1.58 years
- Townsend’s mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Cotton mouse with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Long-tailed planigale with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Tundra vole with an average maximal age of 1.75 years