It is hard to guess what a Nut-colored yellow bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Nut-colored yellow bat (Scotophilus nux) on average weights 30 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Nut-colored yellow bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Scotophilus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.6 cm (0′ 10″).
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 nut-colored yellow bat (Scotophilus nux) is a species of vesper bat. It can be found in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. It is found in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Animals of the same family as a Nut-colored yellow bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Curacao myotis with a weight of 3 grams
- Common bent-wing bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Parti-coloured bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Thick-thumbed myotis with a weight of 3 grams
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Banana pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
- Kerivoula hardwickei with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Nut-colored yellow bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Scotophilus nux:
- Ash-grey mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Greater mouse-tailed bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Yucatan deer mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Common vampire bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Yellow steppe lemming bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Hispid hocicudo bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale