It is hard to guess what a Pygmy shrew tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pygmy shrew tenrec (Microgale parvula) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Pygmy shrew tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Microgale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.6 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 pygmy shrew tenrec (Microgale parvula) is a species of placental mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. While it is not endangered, its population is slowly declining as it is threatened by habitat loss. This is of concern, though does not yet merit a higher protection level.
Animals of the same family as a Pygmy shrew tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 9 grams
- Giant otter shrew with a weight of 685 grams
- Least shrew tenrec with a weight of 3 grams
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 8 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a weight of 112 grams
- Dryad shrew tenrec with a weight of 40 grams
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a weight of 35 grams
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 22 grams
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a weight of 39 grams
- Gracile shrew tenrec with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy shrew tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microgale parvula:
- Spurrell’s woolly bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Ashy roundleaf bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Least shrew tenrec bringing 3 grams to the scale
- American pygmy shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Preble’s shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Curacao myotis bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Whitehead’s woolly bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Frosted sac-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pygmy shrew tenrec
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pygmy shrew tenrec:
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser bulldog bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arizona shrew with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater mouse-tailed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater bulldog bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)