It is hard to guess what a Heller’s pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Heller’s pipistrelle (Neoromicia helios) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Heller’s pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Neoromicia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.4 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Heller’s pipistrelle (Neoromicia helios) is a species of vesper bat.It is found in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Animals of the same family as a Heller’s pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Lesser noctule with a weight of 12 grams
- Golden-tipped bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Daubenton’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Natterer’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Hoary wattled bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Harlequin bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Black myotis with a weight of 2 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Schlieffen’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Brown pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Heller’s pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neoromicia helios:
- Curacao myotis bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Peters’s disk-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Whitehead’s woolly bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Spurrell’s woolly bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Tiny yellow bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Frosted sac-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Banana pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Whiskered bat bringing 3 grams to the scale