It is hard to guess what a Southeastern shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Southeastern shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.1 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Southeastern shrews can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 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 southeastern shrew (Sorex longirostris) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in the southeastern United States.
Animals of the same family as a Southeastern shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s musk shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Kivu shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Long-clawed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Taiga shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Hero shrew with a weight of 91 grams
- Slender shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Siberian large-toothed shrew with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southeastern shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex longirostris:
- Heller’s pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Curacao myotis bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Arabian pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thumbless bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Tiny yellow bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Volcano shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Pygmy shrew tenrec bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Canyon bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Southeastern shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southeastern shrew:
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- American pygmy shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Panamint kangaroo rat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Velvety free-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a size of 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Moupin pika with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southeastern shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Southeastern shrew: