It is hard to guess what a Arabian pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Arabian pipistrelle (Pipistrellus arabicus) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Arabian pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.18 meter (40′ 0″).
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 Arabian pipistrelle (Hypsugo arabicus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.It is found only in Oman.
Animals of the same family as a Arabian pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Long-tailed house bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Evening bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per litter
- Tacarcuna bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Variegated butterfly bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Allen’s spotted bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Somali serotine with a weight of 3 grams
- African yellow bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Thick-thumbed myotis with a weight of 3 grams
- Desert long-eared bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Arabian pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus arabicus:
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Pygmy shrew tenrec bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Whitehead’s woolly bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thumbless bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Johnston’s forest shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bottego’s shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale