It is hard to guess what a Vagrant shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Vagrant shrew (Sorex vagrans) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Vagrant shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). They can live for up to 2.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.4 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Vagrant shrews can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 vagrant shrew (Sorex vagrans), also known as the wandering shrew, is a medium-sized North American shrew. At one time, the montane shrew and the Orizaba long-tailed shrew were considered to belong to the same species.
Animals of the same family as a Vagrant shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Geata mouse shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Egyptian pygmy shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Kivu shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Myosorex varius with a weight of 11 grams
- Babault’s mouse shrew with 2 babies per litter
- Azumi shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Piebald shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Swamp musk shrew with a weight of 10 grams
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Vagrant shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex vagrans:
- Black-winged little yellow bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least dwarf shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser bamboo bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Little yellow bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Makwassie musk shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Jones’s roundleaf bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Chinese pipistrelle bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Riparian myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Vagrant shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Vagrant shrew:
- Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Siberian large-toothed shrew with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian tomb bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Paratriaenops furculus with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woodland dormouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Vagrant shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Vagrant shrew:
- Wyoming ground squirrel
- Asia Minor ground squirrel
- Piebald shrew
- Daurian pika
- Pilbara ningaui
- Northern gracile opossum
- Northern grass mouse
- Rufous mouse opossum
- Narrow-nosed planigale
- Alpine shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Vagrant shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Vagrant shrew:
- White-footed dunnart with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Delany’s mouse with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Southern bog lemming with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Southern Plains woodrat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Golden mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years