It is hard to guess what a Daubenton’s bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Daubenton’s bat (Myotis daubentoni) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Daubenton’s bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 28 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.4 cm (0′ 2″). On average, Daubenton’s bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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.
Daubenton’s bat (Myotis daubentonii) is a Eurasian bat with rather short ears. It ranges from Britain to Japan (Hokkaido) and is considered to be increasing its numbers in many areas.This bat was first described in 1817 by Heinrich Kuhl, who named it in honour of French naturalist Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton.
Animals of the same family as a Daubenton’s bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Rufous mouse-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Asian barbastelle with a weight of 15 grams
- Pygmy long-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Indiana bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Somali serotine with a weight of 3 grams
- Nyctophilus arnhemensis with a weight of 6 grams
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per litter
- Parti-coloured bat with a weight of 15 grams
- New Guinea long-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Daubenton’s bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis daubentoni:
- Northern pygmy mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Lesser large-footed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Indiana bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Moloney’s mimic bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Golden-tipped bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-tongued bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Grey long-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Daubenton’s bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Daubenton’s bat:
- Fringed myotis with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common pipistrelle with a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Least shrew tenrec with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Egyptian slit-faced bat with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Lesser horseshoe bat with a size of 3.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Wagner’s mustached bat with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Woermann’s bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Daubenton’s bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Daubenton’s bat:
- Northern sportive lemur
- Northern ghost bat
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Whiptail wallaby
- Nilgai
- Speke’s gazelle
- Sheep
- Western red colobus
- Southern three-banded armadillo
- Green bush squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Daubenton’s bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Daubenton’s bat:
- Anoa with an average maximal age of 22.5 years
- Purple-faced langur with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Western long-beaked echidna with an average maximal age of 31 years
- North American river otter with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Mediterranean monk seal with an average maximal age of 23.67 years
- Black crested mangabey with an average maximal age of 26.75 years
- Red deer with an average maximal age of 26.75 years
- American badger with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Eastern gray squirrel with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Eurasian lynx with an average maximal age of 26.75 years