It is hard to guess what a Rüppell’s pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rüppell’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus rueppelli) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Rüppell’s pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.4 cm (0′ 2″). Usually, Rüppell’s pipistrelles have 1 babies per litter.
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.
Rüppell’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus rueppellii) is a species of vesper bat found in Africa and Asian republics such as Iraq and Israel. It is found in dry and moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and hot deserts.
Animals of the same family as a Rüppell’s pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Van Gelder’s bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle with a weight of 10 grams
- Zulu serotine with a weight of 4 grams
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
- Long-eared myotis with a weight of 6 grams
- Indian pipistrelle with a weight of 4 grams
- Western small-footed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Malagasy serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Cave myotis with a weight of 9 grams
- Lesser large-footed bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Rüppell’s pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus rueppelli:
- Beatrix’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Lesser white-toothed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Flores woolly bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Sind bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Dark long-tongued bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Thick-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Baird’s shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Lesser woolly bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Rüppell’s pipistrelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Rüppell’s pipistrelle:
- Rufous trident bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat with a size of 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Lesser horseshoe bat with a size of 3.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Least shrew tenrec with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican free-tailed bat with a size of 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Rüppell’s pipistrelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Rüppell’s pipistrelle: