It is hard to guess what a Peters’s musk shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Peters’s musk shrew (Crocidura gracilipes) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Peters’s musk shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Peters’s musk shrews have 2 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 Peters’s musk shrew (Crocidura gracilipes) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Tanzania.
Animals of the same family as a Peters’s musk shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Fraser’s musk shrew with a weight of 17 grams
- Eurasian water shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Slender shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Greater stripe-backed shrew with 4 babies per litter
- Kivu long-haired shrew with 3 babies per litter
- Salenski’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- American pygmy shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grant’s forest shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Chestnut-bellied shrew with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s musk shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura gracilipes:
- Pale shrew tenrec bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Chinese pipistrelle bringing 5 grams to the scale
- São Tomé free-tailed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Large-eared gray shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Salenski’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Large forest bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mexican funnel-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Salenski’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Tiny fat mouse bringing 5 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Peters’s musk shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Peters’s musk shrew: