It is hard to guess what a Greater bamboo bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater bamboo bat (Tylonycteris robustula) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Greater bamboo bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Tylonycteris). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.83 meter (9′ 4″). On average, Greater bamboo bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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 greater bamboo bat (Tylonycteris robustula) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.It is found in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.It has two subspecies:Tylonycteris robustula malayanaTylonycteris robustula robustula
Animals of the same family as a Greater bamboo bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Cape serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Eastern broad-nosed bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Eastern false pipistrelle with a weight of 22 grams
- Small bent-winged bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Dark-winged lesser house bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Silver-haired bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Western barbastelle with a weight of 8 grams
- Northern bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Diminutive serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Eastern long-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater bamboo bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tylonycteris robustula:
- Arizona myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Fog shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Long-legged myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Lesser large-footed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Pygmy gerbil bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris sylvestris bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Moloney’s mimic bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- São Tomé free-tailed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater bamboo bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Greater bamboo bat: