It is hard to guess what a Lesser mouse-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser mouse-eared bat (Myotis oxygnathus) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Lesser mouse-eared bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.4 cm (0′ 2″).
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 mouse-eared bat (Myotis blythii) is a species of insectivorous bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser mouse-eared bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Japanese house bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Gray bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle with a weight of 10 grams
- Sind bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Northern broad-nosed bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Elegant myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Canyon bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Pond bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Southeastern myotis with a weight of 7 grams
- Bronze tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser mouse-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis oxygnathus:
- Altiplano grass mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Javan slit-faced bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Sinaloan pocket mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Common blossom bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Southern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Aberdare mole shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Intermediate roundleaf bat bringing 19 grams to the scale