It is hard to guess what a Lesser bamboo bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser bamboo bat (Tylonycteris pachypus) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Lesser bamboo bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Tylonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.83 meter (9′ 4″). On average, Lesser bamboo bats can have babies 1 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 lesser bamboo bat or lesser flat-headed bat (Tylonycteris pachypus) is one of the smallest species of vesper bat, and is native to Southeast Asia.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser bamboo bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Chocolate wattled bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Cape serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Scully’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Pygmy long-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Greater mouse-eared bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Riparian myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat with a weight of 10 grams
- White-bellied yellow bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Long-tailed house bat with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser bamboo bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tylonycteris pachypus:
- Common thick-thumbed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Insular horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Dent’s shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Groove-toothed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Zulu serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Carmen Mountain shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Western small-footed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser bamboo bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lesser bamboo bat: