It is hard to guess what a Horsfield’s bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Horsfield’s bat (Myotis horsfieldii) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Horsfield’s bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Horsfield’s bat (Myotis horsfieldii) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Animals of the same family as a Horsfield’s bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Harlequin bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Cape serotine with a weight of 5 grams
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Southeastern myotis with a weight of 7 grams
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle with a weight of 8 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
- Seminole bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Zulu serotine with a weight of 4 grams
- Whitehead’s woolly bat with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Horsfield’s bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis horsfieldii:
- Dwarf slit-faced bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed musk shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Blanford’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Little bent-wing bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Indiana bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Flores woolly bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Pale shrew tenrec bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale