It is hard to guess what a Abo bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Abo bat (Glauconycteris poensis) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Abo bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Glauconycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Abo bat (Glauconycteris poensis) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.It is found in several countries in West Africa and Central Africa.It is found in these habitats: subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
Animals of the same family as a Abo bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Western broad-nosed bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Tiny pipistrelle with a weight of 2 grams
- Schreber’s yellow bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Eastern small-footed myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Whitehead’s woolly bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per litter
- Serotine bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Burmese whiskered bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Lesser noctule with a weight of 12 grams
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Abo bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Glauconycteris poensis:
- Dwarf dog-faced bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Scully’s tube-nosed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Keen’s myotis bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Botswanan long-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Climbing shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Pomona roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- De Winton’s long-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket mouse bringing 6 grams to the scale