It is hard to guess what a Least pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Least pipistrelle (Pipistrellus tenuis) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Least pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.4 cm (0′ 2″). On average, Least pipistrelles can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 least pipistrelle (Pipistrellus tenuis) is a species of vesper bat.
Animals of the same family as a Least pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Gray bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Hairy-legged myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Rendall’s serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Hoary wattled bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Daubenton’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Northern broad-nosed bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Nyctophilus geoffroyi with a weight of 2 grams
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Least pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus tenuis:
- Painted bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Proboscis bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Percival’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Brown tube-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Java pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Remy’s pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Yellow-lipped bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Least pipistrelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Least pipistrelle: