It is hard to guess what a Slender shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Slender shrew (Sorex gracillimus) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Slender shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.3 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Slender shrews have 5 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 slender shrew (Sorex gracillimus) is a species of shrew. An adult slender shrew has a weight of 1.5-5.3 grams and a body length of 4.7-6.0 centimeters, with a tail of 4-5 centimeters; this makes it one of the smaller shrews found in its range. It is distributed across northeastern North Korea, Hokkaidō, and the Russian Far East including the Kuril Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Slender shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Niobe’s shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Kelaart’s long-clawed shrew with a weight of 36 grams
- Crosse’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Horsfield’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Fog shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Hero shrew with a weight of 91 grams
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Myosorex varius with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Slender shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex gracillimus:
- Kerivoula hardwickei bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Maclaud’s horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Flute-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Painted bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Riparian myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least dwarf shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Yellow-lipped bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least long-fingered bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Slender shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Slender shrew:
- Bicolored musk shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Southeastern shrew with a size of 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Red fruit bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little brown bat with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Iberian shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Panamint kangaroo rat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Slender shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Slender shrew: