It is hard to guess what a Nimba otter shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Nimba otter shrew (Micropotamogale lamottei) on average weights 69 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Nimba otter shrew is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Micropotamogale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Nimba otter shrews have 3 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.
The Nimba otter shrew (Micropotamogale lamottei) is a dwarf otter shrew and belongs to the mammal family Potamogalidae. Otter shrews are shrew-like afrotherian mammals found in sub-Saharan Africa. They are most closely related to the tenrecs of Madagascar. This species belongs to the genus Micropotamogale, literally meaning “tiny river weasel”. It is native to the Mount Nimba area which rests along the border of Liberia, Guinea, and Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) in West Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Nimba otter shrew
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Gracile shrew tenrec with a weight of 23 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 3 grams
- Least shrew tenrec with a weight of 3 grams
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 9 grams
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 12 grams
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 37 grams
- Dryad shrew tenrec with a weight of 40 grams
- Taiva shrew tenrec with a weight of 12 grams
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with a weight of 160 grams
- Montane shrew tenrec with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Nimba otter shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micropotamogale lamottei:
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Web-footed tenrec bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s thicket rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Woodland Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Jentink’s flying squirrel bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Chestnut white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Edward’s swamp rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 56 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Nimba otter shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Nimba otter shrew:
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mohave ground squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Three-striped dasyure with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Plateau pika with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Nimba otter shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Nimba otter shrew: