It is hard to guess what a Burmese whiskered bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Burmese whiskered bat (Myotis montivagus) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Burmese whiskered bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.2 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 Burmese whiskered bat (Myotis montivagus) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
Animals of the same family as a Burmese whiskered bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Black-winged little yellow bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Fringed myotis with a weight of 8 grams
- Desert pipistrelle with a weight of 2 grams
- Tiny pipistrelle with a weight of 2 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle with a weight of 10 grams
- Tropical big-eared brown bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Bronze tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Greater tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Elegant myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Burmese whiskered bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis montivagus:
- Sind bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Little native mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Rufous mouse-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Verapaz shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bechstein’s bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Godman’s long-tailed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Zacatecas shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris nicefori bringing 8 grams to the scale