It is hard to guess what a Chinese pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chinese pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pulveratus) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Chinese pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3.9 cm (0′ 2″).
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 Chinese pipistrelle (Hypsugo pulveratus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.It is found in China, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Animals of the same family as a Chinese pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Large forest bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Fly River trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Welwitsch’s bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Savi’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Least woolly bat with a weight of 2 grams
- Cape serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Tiny pipistrelle with a weight of 2 grams
- Silvered bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Light-winged lesser house bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Long-fingered bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chinese pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus pulveratus:
- Lesser dwarf shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Short-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Crawford’s gray shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Thailand roundleaf bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Paratriaenops furculus bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Keen’s myotis bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Lesser horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Stoliczka’s trident bat bringing 6 grams to the scale