It is hard to guess what a Banana pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Banana pipistrelle (Neoromicia nanus) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Banana pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Neoromicia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.4 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Banana pipistrelles can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 banana pipistrelle (Neoromicia nana) is a species of vesper bat found throughout much of Africa. It was previously known as Pipistrellus nanus, but genetic analysis has since shown it to be more closely related to other species in the genus Neoromicia.
Animals of the same family as a Banana pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Northern broad-nosed bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Black myotis with a weight of 2 grams
- Greater noctule bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Burmese whiskered bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Papillose woolly bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Yellow-lipped bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Japanese house bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle with a weight of 8 grams
- Brandt’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Banana pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neoromicia nanus:
- Heller’s pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Peters’s disk-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Preble’s shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Canyon bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- American pygmy shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Inyo shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Angulate pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Banana pipistrelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Banana pipistrelle: