It is hard to guess what a Egyptian free-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Egyptian free-tailed bat (Tadarida aegyptiaca) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Egyptian free-tailed bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Tadarida). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Egyptian free-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 Egyptian free-tailed bat, also known as Egyptian guano bat or Egyptian nyctinome, (Tadarida aegyptiaca) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae.
Animals of the same family as a Egyptian free-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Sinaloan mastiff bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Black mastiff bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Ozimops beccarii with a weight of 14 grams
- Para dog-faced bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Pocketed free-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Medje free-tailed bat with a weight of 42 grams
- Mato Grosso dog-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Angolan free-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Big crested mastiff bat with a weight of 29 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Egyptian free-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tadarida aegyptiaca:
- Great bent-winged bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Smoky white-toothed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Tickell’s bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Northern three-striped opossum bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Steppe lemming bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Peruvian vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Blackish white-toothed shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Brown fruit-eating bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Egyptian free-tailed bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Egyptian free-tailed bat:
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian tomb bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater forest shrew with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Egyptian free-tailed bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Egyptian free-tailed bat: