It is hard to guess what a Zacatecas shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Zacatecas shrew (Sorex emarginatus) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Zacatecas shrew is from the family Soricidae (genus: Sorex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.3 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 Zacatecas shrew (Sorex emarginatus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Zacatecas shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Southern short-tailed shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew with a weight of 12 grams
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a weight of 11 grams
- Volcano shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a weight of 6 grams
- American pygmy shrew with a weight of 3 grams
- Bates’s shrew with a weight of 16 grams
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew with a weight of 14 grams
- Siberian large-toothed shrew with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Zacatecas shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex emarginatus:
- Smoky shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Tasmanian pygmy possum bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Large-eared tenrec bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Little native mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Flores woolly bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Eastern harvest mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Western barbastelle bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Sind bat bringing 7 grams to the scale