It is hard to guess what a Preble’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Preble’s shrew (Sorex preblei) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Preble’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.3 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.
Preble’s shrew (Sorex preblei) is a small shrew distributed across the Great Basin of the United States and southern British Columbia in Canada. It belongs to the order Eulipotyphla, family Soricidae and genus Sorex.
Animals of the same family as a Preble’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Verapaz shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Swamp musk shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Usambara shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Japanese water shrew with a weight of 36 grams
- Wimmer’s shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with a weight of 20 grams
- Fox’s shrew with a weight of 21 grams
- Kelaart’s long-clawed shrew with a weight of 36 grams
- Iberian shrew with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Preble’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex preblei:
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Spurrell’s woolly bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thumbless bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Tiny yellow bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Least shrew tenrec bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Curacao myotis bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 3 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Preble’s shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Preble’s shrew:
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cuban flower bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fat mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Indiana bat with a size of 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Velvety free-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)