It is hard to guess what a Malayan water shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Malayan water shrew (Chimarrogale hantu) on average weights 55 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Malayan water shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Chimarrogale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.3 cm (0′ 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 Malayan water shrew (Chimarrogale hantu), also known as the hantu water shrew, is a red-toothed shrew recorded only from the Malaysian state of Selangor. It was listed as a critically endangered, but is now considered near threatened.It gets its scientific name hantu from the Malay word for ghost.
Animals of the same family as a Malayan water shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Long-clawed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Jouvenet’s shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Johnston’s forest shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Greater red musk shrew with a weight of 31 grams
- Gansu shrew with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Glacier Bay water shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Himalayan shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Zacatecas shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Eurasian least shrew with a weight of 2 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Malayan water shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chimarrogale hantu:
- Dusky antechinus bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Rufous elephant shrew bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Brown mouse lemur bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Eastern rock elephant shrew bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Oryzomys gorgasi bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s bonneted bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Cliff chipmunk bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Garlepp’s mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys lamia bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys albigularis bringing 60 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Malayan water shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Malayan water shrew:
- Tufted pygmy squirrel with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Julia Creek dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)