It is hard to guess what a Piebald shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Piebald shrew (Diplomesodon pulchellum) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Piebald shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Diplomesodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.9 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Piebald 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.
The piebald shrew (Diplomesodon pulchellum) is a shrew found in the Turan Lowland east of the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It grows to 2–23⁄4 inches in length, and usually hunts for insects and lizards at night. It is the only extant member of the genus Diplomesodon. In 2011, A. Cheke described a new and possibly extinct species based on a 19th-century manuscript: Diplomesodon sonnerati (Sonnerat’s shrew). It was described again in 2018 to meet certain validity requirements of the ICZN code.
Animals of the same family as a Piebald shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Prairie shrew with 7 babies per litter
- Chestnut-bellied shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Carmen Mountain shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with a weight of 20 grams
- Greater white-toothed shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Southern short-tailed shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Niobe’s shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Southeast Asian shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Crowned shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Horsfield’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Piebald shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Diplomesodon pulchellum:
- Mindanao shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Rufous trident bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Peters’s mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Para dog-faced bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Salt marsh harvest mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Piebald shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Piebald shrew: