It is hard to guess what a Rainey’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rainey’s shrew (Crocidura raineyi) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Rainey’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.8 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Rainey’s shrew (Crocidura raineyi) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Kenya. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Rainey’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Yankari shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Geata mouse shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Baird’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Grant’s forest shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Climbing shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Dark-footed mouse shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Carmen Mountain shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Moonshine shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Rainey’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura raineyi:
- Nelson’s pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Gould’s wattled bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Dollman’s tree mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Brown mastiff bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Rufous trident bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Darien harvest mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Canyon mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Eptesicus demissus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Chestnut dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale