It is hard to guess what a Allen’s spotted bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Allen’s spotted bat (Glauconycteris humeralis) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Allen’s spotted 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.
Allen’s spotted bat (Glauconycteris humeralis) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae found in the following countries: the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, and Uganda. It is found in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Animals of the same family as a Allen’s spotted bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per litter
- Montane myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Somali serotine with a weight of 3 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle with a weight of 10 grams
- Painted bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Long-tailed house bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Natal long-fingered bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Allen’s spotted bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Glauconycteris humeralis:
- Dwarf slit-faced bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Crawford’s gray shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Pomona roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Yankari shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Southern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Mexican funnel-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Cinnamon myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale