It is hard to guess what a Large forest bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Large forest bat (Eptesicus sagittula) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Large forest bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Eptesicus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.2 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.
The large forest bat (Vespadelus darlingtoni) is a vespertilionid bat found in southeast Australia, Tasmania, and Lord Howe Island. They are classified as common.
Animals of the same family as a Large forest bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Moloney’s mimic bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Hairy-legged myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Southern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Welwitsch’s bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Lesser yellow bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Big brown bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Eastern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Schlieffen’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Bechstein’s bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Large forest bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eptesicus sagittula:
- Ozimops loriae bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Iberian shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Mexican small-eared shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Blanford’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Miniopterus macrocneme bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Gambian slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Dent’s horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Sooty mustached bat bringing 5 grams to the scale