It is hard to guess what a Short-snouted elephant shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Short-snouted elephant shrew (Elephantulus brachyrhynchus) on average weights 45 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Short-snouted elephant shrew is from the family Macroscelididae (genus: Elephantulus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Short-snouted elephant shrews have 1 babies per litter.
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 short-snouted elephant shrew or short-snouted sengi (Elephantulus brachyrhynchus) is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. It is found over a wide area of Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Short-snouted elephant shrew
We found other animals of the Macroscelididae family:
- Rufous elephant shrew with a weight of 52 grams
- Somali elephant shrew with a weight of 32 grams
- Western rock elephant shrew with a weight of 65 grams
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a weight of 48 grams
- Black and rufous elephant shrew with a weight of 423 grams
- Dusky elephant shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Macroscelides proboscideus with a weight of 38 grams
- Cape elephant shrew with a weight of 49 grams
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with a weight of 59 grams
- Checkered elephant shrew with a weight of 424 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Short-snouted elephant shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Elephantulus brachyrhynchus:
- Chiapan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Perote mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed vole bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Buffy broad-nosed bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Panamint kangaroo rat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Greater broad-nosed bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Fringe-lipped bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Dorothy’s slender opossum bringing 37 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Short-snouted elephant shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Short-snouted elephant shrew:
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Meadow vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut dunnart with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Short-snouted elephant shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Short-snouted elephant shrew: