It is hard to guess what a Merida small-eared shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Merida small-eared shrew (Cryptotis meridensis) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Merida small-eared shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Cryptotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Merida small-eared shrew (Cryptotis meridensis) is a species of shrew that is endemic to Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Merida small-eared shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Savanna swamp shrew with a weight of 19 grams
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Niobe’s shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Climbing shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Lesser dwarf shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Dwarf shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Negros shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Alpine shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mount Lyell shrew with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Merida small-eared shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cryptotis meridensis:
- Arizona pocket mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Mediterranean water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Delicate vesper mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Luzon shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Aztec mastiff bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Flat-skulled shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lovat’s climbing mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale