It is hard to guess what a Common sheath-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common sheath-tailed bat (Taphozous georgianus) on average weights 30 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Common sheath-tailed bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Taphozous). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.2 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Common sheath-tailed bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 sheathtail bat, species Taphozous georgianus, is a bat in the family Emballonuridae, occurring in northern Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Common sheath-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Short-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Isabelle’s ghost bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Lesser dog-like bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Pel’s pouched bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with a weight of 31 grams
- Proboscis bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Common sheath-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Taphozous georgianus:
- Asian particolored bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Zacatecan deer mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Greater long-nosed bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Greater round-eared bat bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Aztec mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- North African gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Southern bog lemming bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Common sheath-tailed bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Common sheath-tailed bat:
- Southern forest bat
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
- Blackbuck
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle
- Red-shanked douc
- Climbing shrew
- Humpback whale
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Ribbon seal
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common sheath-tailed bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common sheath-tailed bat:
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Val’s gundi with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Uinta ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Forest giant squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.08 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 4.58 years