It is hard to guess what a Thomas’s small-eared shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Thomas’s small-eared shrew (Cryptotis thomasi) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Thomas’s small-eared shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Cryptotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.8 cm (0′ 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.
Thomas’s small-eared shrew (Cryptotis thomasi) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Thomas’s small-eared shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Large-eared gray shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Carmen Mountain shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Eisentraut’s shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Bicolored musk shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Ornate shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Taiga shrew with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Thomas’s small-eared shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cryptotis thomasi:
- Hairy-tailed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Salt marsh harvest mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Heller’s broad-nosed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Jamaican flower bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Variegated butterfly bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Glacier Bay water shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Tropical big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale