It is hard to guess what a Saharan shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Saharan shrew (Crocidura tarfayensis) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Saharan shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.3 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.
The Saharan shrew (Crocidura tarfayensis) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Mauritania and Morocco. Its natural habitats are rocky areas and sandy shores. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Saharan shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jouvenet’s shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Madagascan pygmy shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Mindanao shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Upemba shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Somali shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Geata mouse shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Makwassie musk shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Bicolored shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Saharan shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura tarfayensis:
- Large-eared gray shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Savanna dwarf shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Schlieffen’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Dwarf slit-faced bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- East Asian tailless leaf-nosed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Iberian shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Jackson’s shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mexican funnel-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Hodgson’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Saharan shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Saharan shrew:
- Least shrew tenrec with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed musk shrew with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tien Shan shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hairy big-eyed bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dwarf shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)