It is hard to guess what a Brown pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown pipistrelle (Pipistrellus imbricatus) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Brown pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.18 meter (40′ 0″).
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:
- Ridley’s bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Indiana bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Greenish yellow bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Rendall’s serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Brown tube-nosed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Eastern broad-nosed bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Cinnamon myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Asian barbastelle with a weight of 15 grams
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brown pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus imbricatus:
- Large-eared tenrec bringing 6 grams to the scale
- New Guinea long-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Least horseshoe bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Short-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Croslet horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Gray sac-winged bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Greater bamboo bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale