It is hard to guess what a Parti-coloured bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Parti-coloured bat (Vespertilio murinus) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Parti-coloured bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Vespertilio). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 54.7 cm (1′ 10″). On average, Parti-coloured 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.
The parti-coloured bat or rearmouse (Vespertilio murinus) is a species of vesper bat that lives in temperate Eurasia – Central and Eastern Europe, in some parts of Western and Southern Europe and Asia. Occurs eastwards over the Caucasus and Iran into Mongolia, north-east China, Korea, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
Animals of the same family as a Parti-coloured bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Greater noctule bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Heller’s pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
- Desert long-eared bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Schlieffen’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Serotine bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Greater mouse-eared bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Eastern long-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
- Northern bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Seminole bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Parti-coloured bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vespertilio murinus:
- Neacomys guianae bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Meadow jumping mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys minutus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Acuminate horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Canyon mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Greater forest shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Dark-footed mouse shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Brown flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Delicate vesper mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Parti-coloured bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Parti-coloured bat:
- Siamang
- Northern giraffe
- Hamlyn’s monkey
- Bearded seal
- Stephen’s woodrat
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby
- Silver fruit-eating bat
- Rusty pipistrelle
- Tropical vlei rat
- Dormer’s bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Parti-coloured bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Parti-coloured bat:
- Mindanao treeshrew with an average maximal age of 11.5 years
- Silver dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Red panda with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Pudú with an average maximal age of 12.5 years
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Capybara with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Javan warty pig with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Mountain beaver with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Fishing cat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Jaguarundi with an average maximal age of 10.58 years