It is hard to guess what a Yellow-lipped bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-lipped bat (Vespadelus douglasorum) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Yellow-lipped bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Vespadelus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 cm (0′ 8″).
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 yellow-lipped cave bat (Vespadelus douglasorum) is a vespertilionid bat which only occurs in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia. The bat was first captured at Tunnel Creek in 1958 and a description published nearly twenty years later. Aside from observations of their physical characteristics, a preference for caves, and hunting insects over streams, little is known of the species.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-lipped bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Dark-winged lesser house bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Heller’s pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
- Myotis bocagei with a weight of 7 grams
- Big-eared brown bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Lesser hairy-winged bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Curacao myotis with a weight of 3 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Brandt’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Brown tube-nosed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Big brown bat with a weight of 17 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-lipped bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vespadelus douglasorum:
- Groove-toothed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Groove-toothed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- North American least shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Riparian myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Flute-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- California myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Trinidad dog-like bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Western small-footed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least dwarf shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Kerivoula hardwickei bringing 4 grams to the scale