It is hard to guess what a Savanna shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Savanna shrew (Crocidura fulvastra) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Savanna shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.1 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 savanna shrew (Crocidura fulvastra) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Savanna shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Bicolored musk shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Saharan shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Tundra shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Bottego’s shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Mount Kenya mole shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Smoky white-toothed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Horsfield’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Savanna shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura fulvastra:
- Evening bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Baird’s shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Bechstein’s bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Rufous horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Lander’s horseshoe bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Greater dog-like bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Large-toothed shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- California leaf-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale