It is hard to guess what a Trowbridge’s shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Trowbridge’s shrew (Sorex trowbridgii) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Trowbridge’s shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). They can live for up to 1.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.3 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Trowbridge’s shrews can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 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.
Trowbridge’s shrew (Sorex trowbridgii) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in southern British Columbia in Canada and in Washington, Oregon, and California in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Trowbridge’s shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- African black shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Crowned shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Himalayan shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Mexican shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with a weight of 20 grams
- Remy’s pygmy shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arizona shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Somali shrew with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Trowbridge’s shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex trowbridgii:
- Thailand roundleaf bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Spix’s disk-winged bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Ridley’s bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed planigale bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Least horseshoe bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Gray sac-winged bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Groove-toothed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Trowbridge’s shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Trowbridge’s shrew:
- Common blossom bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arizona shrew with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Western harvest mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Trowbridge’s shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Trowbridge’s shrew:
- Fisher (animal)
- Large vlei rat
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Nicobar shrew
- Japanese mole
- Altai birch mouse
- Red-nosed mouse
- Chinese bamboo rat
- Palmer’s chipmunk
- Amazonian marsh rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Trowbridge’s shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Trowbridge’s shrew:
- North American least shrew with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Ornate shrew with an average maximal age of 1.42 years
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Long-clawed shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Smoky shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Atlantic bamboo rat with an average maximal age of 1.58 years
- White-eared opossum with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Townsend’s mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Tundra vole with an average maximal age of 1.75 years