It is hard to guess what a Brown pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown pipistrelle (Hypsugo imbricatus) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Brown pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Hypsugo). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.1 cm (0′ 6″).
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 brown pipistrelle (Hypsugo imbricatus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Brown pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Daubenton’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- White-winged serotine with a weight of 5 grams
- Long-fingered bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Natterer’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Tricolored bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Yellowish myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Cape serotine with a weight of 5 grams
- Allen’s spotted bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brown pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hypsugo imbricatus:
- White-bellied big-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Keen’s myotis bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Dormer’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Little brown bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Trinidadian funnel-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Northern pygmy mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Pomona roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Little big-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Elgon shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale