It is hard to guess what a Greater noctule bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus) on average weights 45 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Greater noctule bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Nyctalus). It is usually born with about 5 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.4 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Greater noctule bats have 1 babies per litter.
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 noctule bat (Nyctalus lasiopterus) is a rare carnivorous bat found in Europe, West Asia, and North Africa. It is the largest and least studied bat in Europe with a wingspan of up to 46 centimetres (18 in) and is one of the few bat species to feed on passerine birds. Greater noctule bats are the only bat species to hunt birds on the wing rather than when roosting. The greater noctule bat has wings adapted for open-air hunting and uses echolocation frequencies above the hearing range of birds.
Animals of the same family as a Greater noctule bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- White-winged serotine with a weight of 5 grams
- Variegated butterfly bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Black myotis with a weight of 2 grams
- Western small-footed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Myotis vivesi with a weight of 25 grams
- Papillose woolly bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Fringed myotis with a weight of 8 grams
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater noctule bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctalus lasiopterus:
- Hispid hocicudo bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Cape golden mole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Cape short-eared gerbil bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Comoro rousette bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Spotted bolo mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater noctule bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Greater noctule bat: