It is hard to guess what a Volcano shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Volcano shrew (Sylvisorex vulcanorum) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Volcano shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sylvisorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″).
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 volcano shrew (Sylvisorex vulcanorum) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae found in the high-altitude rainforest of Burundi, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and swamps. Its type locality is Rwanda, Parc National des Volcans, Karisoke (0°28’S, 29°29’E, 3,100 m).
Animals of the same family as a Volcano shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Lesser dwarf shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Crowned shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Mediterranean water shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Greater white-toothed shrew with a weight of 9 grams
- Inyo shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- Egyptian pygmy shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Mount Cameroon forest shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Cinereus shrew with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Volcano shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sylvisorex vulcanorum:
- Preble’s shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Inyo shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Peters’s disk-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Whiskered bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Whitehead’s woolly bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale