It is hard to guess what a Hinde’s lesser house bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hinde’s lesser house bat (Scotoecus hindei) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Hinde’s lesser house bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Scotoecus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 55.7 cm (1′ 10″).
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.
Hinde’s lesser house bat (Scotoecus hindei) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is dry savanna. Oldfield Thomas named it in honor of Sidney Langford Hinde, a British officer and recreational naturalist.
Animals of the same family as a Hinde’s lesser house bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Cape hairy bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Fly River trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Somali serotine with a weight of 4 grams
- Savi’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Long-eared myotis with a weight of 6 grams
- Canyon bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Diminutive serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Java pipistrelle with a weight of 4 grams
- Nyctophilus corbeni with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hinde’s lesser house bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Scotoecus hindei:
- Micronomus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Gray bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Variegated butterfly bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Hairy-faced bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Ozimops planiceps bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Southern ningaui bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Southern pygmy mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Alston’s brown mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Para dog-faced bat bringing 12 grams to the scale