It is hard to guess what a Northern freetail bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern freetail bat (Chaerephon jobensis) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Northern freetail bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Chaerephon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.04 meter (6′ 9″).
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 northern freetail bat (Chaerephon jobensis) is a species of bat found in Yapen, Seram Island, Western New Guinea and Northern Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Northern freetail bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Mongalla free-tailed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Russet free-tailed bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Bini free-tailed bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Velvety free-tailed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Peters’s flat-headed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Nigerian free-tailed bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Black mastiff bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Big bonneted bat with a weight of 83 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern freetail bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaerephon jobensis:
- Chestnut dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed pocket mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Small-toothed harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Cerrado mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Santa Cruz mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Sonoran harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Yellow-winged bat bringing 23 grams to the scale