It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed musk shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed musk shrew (Crocidura dolichura) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Long-tailed musk shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.1 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 long-tailed musk shrew (Crocidura dolichura) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Nigeria, and Uganda.
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed musk shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Malayan water shrew with a weight of 55 grams
- Horsfield’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Eurasian least shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Flat-skulled shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Large-eared gray shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Yankari shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Greater stripe-backed shrew with 4 babies per litter
- Baird’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Salenski’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Moonshine shrew with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed musk shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura dolichura:
- Groove-toothed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Rendall’s serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Pomona roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Southern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus simplex bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Bicolored musk shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Crawford’s gray shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Iberian shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed musk shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-tailed musk shrew:
- New Holland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arctic shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Velvety free-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cyclops roundleaf bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Spiny pocket mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- European free-tailed bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)