It is hard to guess what a Wandering small-eared shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wandering small-eared shrew (Cryptotis montivaga) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Wandering small-eared shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Cryptotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.9 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 wandering small-eared shrew (Cryptotis montivaga) is a species of shrew in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Ecuador.
Animals of the same family as a Wandering small-eared shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Rainey’s shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Nigerian shrew with a weight of 23 grams
- Gansu shrew with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Kivu shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Saussure’s shrew with a weight of 4 grams
- Bates’s shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Mediterranean water shrew with a weight of 13 grams
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Baird’s shrew with a weight of 8 grams
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same weight as a Wandering small-eared shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cryptotis montivaga:
- Davy’s naked-backed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Greater long-tailed hamster bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Papillose woolly bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Tailed tailless bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Greater dog-like bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Olive-backed pocket mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Southern pygmy mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Wandering small-eared shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Wandering small-eared shrew:
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common vampire bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed musk shrew with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- San Diego pocket mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)