It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed shrew (Sorex gaspensis) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Long-tailed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.5 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Long-tailed shrews have 5 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:
- Large-toothed shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Mindanao shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Crosse’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Mount Kenya mole shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Aberdare mole shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Niobe’s shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Apennine shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Jackson’s shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Geata mouse shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Malayan water shrew with a weight of 55 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 gaspensis:
- Inyo shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Whiskered bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Angulate pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- American pygmy shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Tiny yellow bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Volcano shrew bringing 3 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:
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rhinolophus hilli with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ornate shrew with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Shinto shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 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 (5) as a Long-tailed shrew: