It is hard to guess what a Common bent-wing bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common bent-wing bat (Miniopterus schreibersii) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Common bent-wing bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Miniopterus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 91.8 cm (3′ 1″). Normally, Common bent-wing bats can have babies 1 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 common bent-wing bat, Schreibers’s long-fingered bat, or Schreibers’s bat refers to a species of insectivorous bat, a taxonomic complex of subspecies and probably several species in the family Miniopteridae currently named as Miniopterus schreibersii. They appear to have dispersed from a subtropical origin and distributed throughout the southern Palearctic, Ethiopic, Oriental, and Australian regions. In Europe, it is present in the southern half on the continent from Iberia to the Caucasus, with the largest populations found in the warmer Mediterranean area. The common and scientific names honor Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers.
Animals of the same family as a Common bent-wing bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Somali serotine with a weight of 3 grams
- Indian pipistrelle with a weight of 4 grams
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Spurrell’s woolly bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Pond bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Cape serotine with a weight of 5 grams
- Western false pipistrelle with a weight of 23 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Somali serotine with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Common bent-wing bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Miniopterus schreibersii:
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Lesser hairy-winged bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Jouvenet’s shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Trident bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Fulvous harvest mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Eastern broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Lesser large-headed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common bent-wing bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common bent-wing bat:
- Ground cuscus with an average maximal age of 12 years
- North American beaver with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Northern bat with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Hirola with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Harnessed bushbuck with an average maximal age of 13 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Urial with an average maximal age of 13.75 years
- Eastern bettong with an average maximal age of 11.75 years