It is hard to guess what a Saint Lawrence Island shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Saint Lawrence Island shrew (Sorex jacksoni) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Saint Lawrence Island shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). 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 Saint Lawrence Island shrew (Sorex jacksoni) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found only on Alaska’s St. Lawrence Island.
Animals of the same family as a Saint Lawrence Island shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dwarf shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Moonshine shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Dsinezumi shrew with 4 babies per litter
- Cinereus shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mauritanian shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Ludia’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Saint Lawrence Island shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex jacksoni:
- Chestnut-bellied shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Verapaz shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Swinny’s horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Large-eared tenrec bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Jackson’s shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Vagrant shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Saharan shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Saint Lawrence Island shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Saint Lawrence Island shrew:
- Allen’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fat mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crowned shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Moupin pika with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser ranee mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)