It is hard to guess what a Desert long-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert long-eared bat (Otonycteris hemprichii) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Desert long-eared bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Otonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.4 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Desert long-eared bats have 1 babies per litter.
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 desert long-eared bat (Otonycteris hemprichii) is a species of vesper bat found in North Africa and the Middle East.
Animals of the same family as a Desert long-eared bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Somali serotine with a weight of 4 grams
- Long-fingered bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Silver-tipped myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Abo bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Burmese whiskered bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Diminutive serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Japanese house bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Eptesicus demissus with a weight of 13 grams
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Desert long-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Otonycteris hemprichii:
- Steppe field mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Little yellow-shouldered bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Parnell’s mustached bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Forrest’s mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Small-toothed harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Desert long-eared bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert long-eared bat:
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woodland dormouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Parnell’s mustached bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- American pygmy shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert long-eared bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Desert long-eared bat: