It is hard to guess what a Blanford’s bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Blanford’s bat (Hesperoptenus blanfordi) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Blanford’s bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Hesperoptenus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 47.8 cm (1′ 7″).
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.
Blanford’s bat (Hesperoptenus blanfordi), also known as the least false-serotine bat, is a species of vesper bat. It can be found in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand, where it lives in various different forested habitats. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Blanford’s bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Geoffroy’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Daubenton’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Southwestern myotis with a weight of 38 grams
- Harlequin bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Intermediate long-fingered bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Eastern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Hairy-faced bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Blanford’s bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hesperoptenus blanfordi:
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Southern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Abo bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Allen’s spotted bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Rufous mouse-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Savanna dwarf shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Yankari shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Peters’s musk shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Golden-tipped bat bringing 6 grams to the scale