It is hard to guess what a Greater mouse-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Greater mouse-eared bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). It is usually born with about 6 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 22 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Greater mouse-eared 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 greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) is a European species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
Animals of the same family as a Greater mouse-eared bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Tickell’s bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Riparian myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Curacao myotis with a weight of 3 grams
- Elegant myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Tropical big-eared brown bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Horsfield’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Northern bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater mouse-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis myotis:
- Carriker’s round-eared bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Serra do Mar grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Desert long-eared bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Long-tongued fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- White-lined broad-nosed bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 29 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater mouse-eared bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater mouse-eared bat:
- Common vampire bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tien Shan shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Madagascan flying fox with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grant’s golden mole with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Temminck’s mouse with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater mouse-eared bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Greater mouse-eared bat:
- Caspian seal
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Philippine pygmy squirrel
- Philippine tarsier
- Melck’s house bat
- Mountain nyala
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat
- Four-horned antelope
- Yellow-backed duiker
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Greater mouse-eared bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Greater mouse-eared bat:
- Fossa (animal) with an average maximal age of 20 years
- European rabbit with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Southern elephant seal with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Asian golden cat with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Madagascan fruit bat with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Sumatran serow with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Bongo (antelope) with an average maximal age of 19.42 years
- American badger with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Margay with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with an average maximal age of 25 years