It is hard to guess what a Merriam’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Merriam’s shrew (Sorex merriami) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Merriam’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Merriam’s 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.
Merriam’s shrew (Sorex merriami) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to the western United States and extreme southern British Columbia in Canada.
Animals of the same family as a Merriam’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Asian house shrew with a weight of 43 grams
- Kongana shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Mexican long-tailed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Mount Cameroon forest shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Malayan water shrew with a weight of 55 grams
- East African highland shrew with 3 babies per litter
- Long-tailed shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Least dwarf shrew with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Merriam’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex merriami:
- Tricolored bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Climbing shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Long-eared myotis bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Yuma myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Doucet’s musk shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Benito roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Ludia’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Pygmy long-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Blanford’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Merriam’s shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Merriam’s shrew:
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Vagrant shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Serotine bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Plains pocket mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian least shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Merriam’s shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Merriam’s shrew: