It is hard to guess what a Black myotis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black myotis (Myotis nigricans) on average weights 2 grams (0 lbs).
The Black myotis is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 3.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.1 meter (16′ 9″). Normally, Black myotiss can have babies 2 times a year.
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 black myotis (Myotis nigricans), is a vesper bat species from South and Central America.Its body is dark brown/black. The head to body length, not including the tail, is about 5 cm (2 in.). The black myotis is a tiny bat with a small pointed non-noseleaf snout. Its ears are pointy and triangular, and extremely sensitive. Its forearm-like wings have single claws while its hind feet have five, and its torso is covered in a short hair layer.
Animals of the same family as a Black myotis
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Desert long-eared bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Rohu’s bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
- Eastern small-footed myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Red myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Western barbastelle with a weight of 8 grams
- Greater mouse-eared bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per litter
- Beatrix’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Common noctule with a weight of 28 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black myotis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis nigricans:
- Himalayan whiskered bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Dark sheath-tailed bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Desert pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Tiny pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Madagascan pygmy shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Pipistrellus mimus bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Dwarf shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Arizona shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Desert pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Mauritanian shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Black myotis
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Black myotis:
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Günther’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Ooldea dunnart with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 4 years