It is hard to guess what a Thomas’s shrew tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Thomas’s shrew tenrec (Microgale thomasi) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Thomas’s shrew tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Microgale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Thomas’s shrew tenrec (Microgale thomasi) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Thomas’s shrew tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 45 grams
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec with a weight of 18 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a weight of 112 grams
- Least shrew tenrec with a weight of 3 grams
- Giant otter shrew with a weight of 685 grams
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a weight of 35 grams
- Nimba otter shrew with a weight of 69 grams
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a weight of 34 grams
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with a weight of 160 grams
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with a weight of 277 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Thomas’s shrew tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microgale thomasi:
- Long-nosed caenolestid bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Notiomys bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Brush mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Desert long-eared bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-eared bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Nigerian shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale