It is hard to guess what a Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew (Soriculus fumidus) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Soriculus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Taiwanese brown-toothed 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 Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew (Episoriculus fumidus) is a species of shrew in the Nectogalini tribe. It is found only in Taiwan. It prefers dense ground cover in forests and subalpine shrublands in high mountains of central Taiwan.
Animals of the same family as a Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rainey’s shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Montane white-toothed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eisentraut’s shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Reddish-gray musk shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Verapaz shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Volcano shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Savanna dwarf shrew with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Soriculus fumidus:
- Yellowish myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Greater bamboo bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Lesser dog-like bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus simplex bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Yankari shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Myotis bocagei bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Allen’s spotted bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Savi’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew:
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cinereus shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Horsfield’s shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Trident bat with a size of 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater mouse-tailed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew: