It is hard to guess what a Smoky shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Smoky shrew (Sorex fumeus) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Smoky shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). They can live for up to 1.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Smoky shrews can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 smoky shrew (Sorex fumeus) is a medium-sized North American shrew found in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States and extends further south along the Appalachian Mountains.
Animals of the same family as a Smoky shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Bottego’s shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Somali shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- East African highland shrew with 3 babies per litter
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Long-tailed shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Mount Kenya mole shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Japanese water shrew with a weight of 36 grams
- Large-eared gray shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Salenski’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Jackson’s shrew with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex fumeus:
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Flores woolly bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Large-eared tenrec bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Northern birch mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus simplex bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Indiana bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Sind bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Smoky shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Smoky shrew:
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rhinolophus hilli with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Paratriaenops furculus with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Smoky shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Smoky shrew:
- Meadow vole
- Royle’s mountain vole
- Eversmann’s hamster
- Kowari
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse
- Wongai ningaui
- Tundra vole
- Northern red-backed vole
- Alston’s cotton rat
- Douglas squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Smoky shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Smoky shrew:
- Long-tailed planigale with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Crowned shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Himalayan mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Cotton mouse with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Montane shrew with an average maximal age of 1.33 years
- Southern marsupial mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Long-clawed shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Hottentot golden mole with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Townsend’s mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years