It is hard to guess what a Mindanao shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mindanao shrew (Crocidura beatus) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Mindanao shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.8 cm (0′ 3″).
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 Mindanao shrew (Crocidura beatus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Mindanao shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Peters’s musk shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- American water shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Babault’s mouse shrew with 2 babies per litter
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Elgon shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Usambara shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mindanao shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura beatus:
- Burmese whiskered bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Gray long-tongued bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Plains harvest mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Northern leaf-nosed bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Rufous horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Myosorex varius bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Southern birch mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale