It is hard to guess what a Makwassie musk shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Makwassie musk shrew (Crocidura maquassiensis) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Makwassie musk shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3 cm (0′ 2″).
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 Makwassie musk shrew (Crocidura maquassiensis) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in South Africa, Eswatini, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.
Animals of the same family as a Makwassie musk shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Greater forest shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Ludia’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Somali shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Crowned shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Greater dwarf shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Vagrant shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Hildegarde’s shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- East African highland shrew with 3 babies per litter
- Goliath shrew with a weight of 87 grams
- Crawford’s gray shrew with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Makwassie musk shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura maquassiensis:
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Tricolored bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Allen’s spotted bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Lesser white-toothed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Greater tube-nosed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Trinidadian funnel-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Whitaker’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- De Winton’s long-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale