It is hard to guess what a Swamp musk shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Swamp musk shrew (Crocidura mariquensis) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Swamp musk shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3 cm (0′ 2″). Usually, Swamp musk shrews have 3 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 swamp musk shrew (Crocidura mariquensis), or musk shrew, is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It occurs in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is swamps, and it is a common species in suitable habitats, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature listing it as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Swamp musk shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Negros shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grant’s forest shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Long-tailed shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Tundra shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Malayan water shrew with a weight of 55 grams
- Upemba shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- East African highland shrew with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Swamp musk shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura mariquensis:
- Orange leaf-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Honey possum bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus sedulus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Little pocket mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Myosorex varius bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Triaenops rufus bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Crowned shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Para dog-faced bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Mexican free-tailed bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Greater dog-like bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Swamp musk shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Swamp musk shrew: