It is hard to guess what a Mexican shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mexican shrew (Megasorex gigas) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Mexican shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Megasorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.9 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 Mexican shrew (Megasorex gigas) is a species of mammal from the subfamily Soricinae in the family Soricidae. It is monotypic within the genus Megasorex and is endemic to Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Mexican shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Shinto shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Azumi shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Mexican long-tailed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Carmen Mountain shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Ludia’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Fog shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Wimmer’s shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rainey’s shrew with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Megasorex gigas:
- Orange nectar bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Eastern red bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Alston’s brown mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Mediterranean water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lovat’s climbing mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Tailed tailless bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Scaly-footed small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Eptesicus demissus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Variegated butterfly bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mexican shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mexican shrew:
- Taiga shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandstone false antechinus with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Stirton’s deer mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Creeping vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)