It is hard to guess what a Ussuri shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ussuri shrew (Sorex mirabilis) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Ussuri shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.7 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.
The Ussuri shrew (Sorex mirabilis), also known as the giant shrew, is a species of shrew found in Northeast Asia. An adult Ussuri shrew has a total length including the tail of 137 to 170 mm (5.4 to 6.7 in). It is found in valleys and on the forested slopes of mountains in the Korean Peninsula, northeastern China, and the Russian Far East. It is rarely observed, and its ecology is largely unknown.
Animals of the same family as a Ussuri shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Mauritanian shrew with a weight of 2 grams
- Blackish white-toothed shrew with a weight of 20 grams
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Usambara shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Crocidura grandiceps with a weight of 23 grams
- Carmen Mountain shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Cinereus shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Dark-footed mouse shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bottego’s shrew with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ussuri shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex mirabilis:
- Gray short-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Rufous trident bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew tenrec bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Pond bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Lesser large-headed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Heller’s broad-nosed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Greater long-fingered bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Buffy flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Ipanema bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale