It is hard to guess what a Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew (Episoriculus fumidus) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Episoriculus). 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:
- Hero shrew with a weight of 91 grams
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Nigerian shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Lesser red musk shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Piebald shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Inyo shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Verapaz shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Bicolored musk shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Preble’s shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Fog shrew with a weight of 8 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 Episoriculus fumidus:
- Saharan shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Eurasian harvest mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Southeastern myotis bringing 7 grams to the scale
- MacConnell’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Montane myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus simplex bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Savi’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Yuma myotis bringing 5 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:
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hairy big-eyed bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Guinean planigale with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Shinto shrew with a size of 6.3 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: