It is hard to guess what a Kuhl’s pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kuhl’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Kuhl’s pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.5 cm (0′ 2″). Usually, Kuhl’s pipistrelles 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.
Kuhl’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) is a species of vesper bat that lives over large areas of North Africa, southern Europe and Western Asia. It can be found in temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, rural gardens, and urban areas.
Animals of the same family as a Kuhl’s pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Long-legged myotis with a weight of 8 grams
- Cape serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Least long-fingered bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Pygmy long-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Gould’s long-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Little forest bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
- Bechstein’s bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Horsfield’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Dark-winged lesser house bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Kuhl’s pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus kuhlii:
- Rendall’s serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Saharan shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Schlieffen’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Miniopterus macrocneme bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Natterer’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Tiny fat mouse bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Dwarf dog-faced bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Kuhl’s pipistrelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Kuhl’s pipistrelle:
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Johnston’s forest shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Preble’s shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dwarf shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser horseshoe bat with a size of 3.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Fringed myotis with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ornate shrew with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Grey long-eared bat with a size of 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Kuhl’s pipistrelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Kuhl’s pipistrelle: