It is hard to guess what a Big-eared brown bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Big-eared brown bat (Histiotus macrotus) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Big-eared brown bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Histiotus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.04 meter (6′ 9″).
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 big-eared brown bat (Histiotus macrotus) is a species of vesper bat found in Argentina, Paraguay, and Chile.
Animals of the same family as a Big-eared brown bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Hairy-legged myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Savi’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Diminutive serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Greenish yellow bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Flores woolly bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Chocolate wattled bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Little bent-wing bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Southeastern myotis with a weight of 7 grams
- Dark-winged lesser house bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Big-eared brown bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Histiotus macrotus:
- Bates’s slit-faced bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Lesser ghost bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Dwarf little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Para dog-faced bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Greater white-toothed shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- White-bellied lesser house bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Cape horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Andean small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Southern ningaui bringing 9 grams to the scale