It is hard to guess what a Eastern false pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern false pipistrelle (Pipistrellus tasmaniensis) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Eastern false pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.4 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 eastern false pipistrelle, species Falsistrellus tasmaniensis, is a vespertilionid bat that occurs in eastern and south-eastern Australia, including the island of Tasmania.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern false pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- White-bellied lesser house bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Rendall’s serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Botswanan long-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Schlieffen’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Brown long-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Blanford’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Fraternal myotis with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern false pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus tasmaniensis:
- Desert long-eared bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- White-tailed dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Steppe lemming bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Wilson’s spiny mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Akodon albiventer bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Least forest mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Schreber’s yellow bat bringing 26 grams to the scale