How big does a Smoky shrew get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Smoky shrew (Sorex fumeus) reaches an average size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 1.25 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 7 grams (0.02 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Smoky shrews have 5 babies about 2 times per year. The Smoky shrew (genus: Sorex) is a member of the family Soricidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The smoky shrew (Sorex fumeus) is a medium-sized North American shrew found in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States and extends further south along the Appalachian Mountains.
Animals of the same family as a Smoky shrew
We found other animals of the Soricidae family:
- Trowbridge’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ludia’s shrew with a weight of 5 grams
- Grant’s forest shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Fraser’s musk shrew with 2 babies per litter
- Egyptian pygmy shrew with a weight of 7 grams
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eurasian least shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Merriam’s shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Smoky shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Smoky shrew:
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Alpine shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fulvous harvest mouse with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Smoky shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Smoky shrew:
- Pygmy rabbit
- Striped field mouse
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
- Uinta ground squirrel
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse
- American water shrew
- Wongai ningaui
- Grey dwarf hamster
- Norway lemming
- Spectacled dormouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Smoky shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Smoky shrew:
- Wood lemming with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Ornate shrew with an average maximal age of 1.42 years
- Long-clawed shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Creeping vole with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Crawford’s gray shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Crowned shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Southern marsupial mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sorex fumeus:
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Little bent-wing bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Northern little yellow-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Little pocket mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Desert pygmy mouse bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Long-legged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bushveld horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Hoary wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Fraternal myotis bringing 7 grams to the scale