It is hard to guess what a Surat serotine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Surat serotine (Eptesicus dimissus) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Surat serotine is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Eptesicus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 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 Surat serotine (Eptesicus dimissus) is a species of vesper bat. It is found only in Thailand.
Animals of the same family as a Surat serotine
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Yellow-lipped bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Lesser hairy-winged bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Lesser bamboo bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Whitehead’s woolly bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Western bent-winged bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Great evening bat with a weight of 49 grams
- Zulu serotine with a weight of 4 grams
- Painted bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Eastern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Surat serotine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eptesicus dimissus:
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Mexican harvest mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Pygmy fruit bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Trident bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Pale kangaroo mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Eastern red bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Eurasian water shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Negros shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale