It is hard to guess what a Yuma myotis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yuma myotis (Myotis yumanensis) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Yuma myotis is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). They can live for up to 8.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Yuma myotiss can have babies 1 times a year.
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 Yuma myotis (Myotis yumanensis) is a species of vesper bat native to western North America.
Animals of the same family as a Yuma myotis
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Greater long-fingered bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Yellow serotine with a weight of 10 grams
- Southern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Variegated butterfly bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Whitehead’s woolly bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
- Hinde’s lesser house bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Pond bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle with a weight of 8 grams
- Diminutive serotine with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yuma myotis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis yumanensis:
- Grey long-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Clear-winged woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- White-winged serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-tongued bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Doucet’s musk shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Delany’s mouse bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Trinidadian funnel-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Yuma myotis
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Yuma myotis:
- Pichi with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Red-tailed chipmunk with an average maximal age of 8 years
- American hog-nosed skunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Javan mongoose with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Brown dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 7.58 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Siberian weasel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
- Plains viscacha with an average maximal age of 9.33 years
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Black giant squirrel with an average maximal age of 10.08 years