It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed shrew (Sorex dispar) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Long-tailed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.3 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Long-tailed shrews have 4 babies per litter.
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 shrew or rock shrew (Sorex dispar) is a small North American shrew found in Atlantic Canada and the Northeastern United States.This shrew is slate grey in colour with a pointed snout, a long tail, and lighter underparts. It is found on rocky slopes in mountainous areas along the Atlantic coast from Gaspé Peninsula, Quebec, and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, to northern Georgia. It eats insects and spiders. Predators include hawks, owls, and snakes.
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Dark-footed mouse shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with a weight of 20 grams
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ussuri shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Canarian shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Malayan pygmy shrew with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex dispar:
- Little yellow bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Remy’s pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Yellow-lipped bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Zulu serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Percival’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Elegant myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed 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 shrew:
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arizona shrew with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Trident bat with a size of 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Western harvest mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mediterranean water shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-tailed shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Long-tailed shrew: