It is hard to guess what a Greater Papuan pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater Papuan pipistrelle (Pipistrellus collinus) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Greater Papuan pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 56 cm (1′ 11″).
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 Papuan pipistrelle (Pipistrellus collinus) is a species of vesper bat found in Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya.
Animals of the same family as a Greater Papuan pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Silvered bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Tiny pipistrelle with a weight of 2 grams
- Little pied bat with 2 babies per litter
- Bobrinski’s serotine with a weight of 7 grams
- Western small-footed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Geoffroy’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Little brown bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater Papuan pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus collinus:
- Broad-headed pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Elgon shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-fingered bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Spurred roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Peters’s musk shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Beatrix’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Argentine brown bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Vagrant shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Yellow-lipped bat bringing 5 grams to the scale