It is hard to guess what a Fringed myotis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Fringed myotis is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 18.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Fringed myotiss 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 fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes) is a species of vesper bat that is found in British Columbia in Canada, Mexico, and the western United States.
Animals of the same family as a Fringed myotis
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Black-winged little yellow bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Abo bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Robust yellow bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow serotine with a weight of 10 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle with a weight of 10 grams
- Eastern red bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Curacao myotis with a weight of 3 grams
- Mexican big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Northern broad-nosed bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Western small-footed bat with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fringed myotis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis thysanodes:
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Spurrell’s free-tailed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Hodgson’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Little pocket mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Common shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Godman’s long-tailed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Lesser brown horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Croslet horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Egyptian slit-faced bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Paucident planigale bringing 9 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Fringed myotis
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Fringed myotis:
- Greater mouse-tailed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a size of 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wagner’s mustached bat with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Slender shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern little yellow-eared bat with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Fringed myotis
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Fringed myotis:
- Senegal bushbaby with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Sable with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Japanese serow with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- East African oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 21.17 years
- Natterer’s bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Small-toothed palm civet with an average maximal age of 15.83 years
- Yellow mongoose with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Equatorial saki with an average maximal age of 14.83 years
- Asian golden cat with an average maximal age of 18 years