It is hard to guess what a Usambara shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Usambara shrew (Crocidura usambarae) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Usambara shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Crocidura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.9 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Usambara shrews have 1 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 Usambara shrew (Crocidura usambarae) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Tanzania. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Usambara shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Shinto shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Carmen Mountain shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Whitaker’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Marsh shrew with a weight of 15 grams
- Saharan shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew with a weight of 18 grams
- Nigerian shrew with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Usambara shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Crocidura usambarae:
- Little broad-nosed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Silver-haired bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys altissimus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Gray climbing mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Cave myotis bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Southern short-tailed shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Ooldea dunnart bringing 12 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Usambara shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Usambara shrew:
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nubra pika with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pale shrew tenrec with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Usambara shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Usambara shrew: