It is hard to guess what a Lesser mouse-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma hardwickii) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Lesser mouse-tailed bat is from the family Rhinopomatidae (genus: Rhinopoma). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.9 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Lesser mouse-tailed bats can have babies 1 times a year.
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-tailed bat (Rhinopoma hardwickii) is a species of microbat in the family Rhinopomatidae. Also referred to as Hardwicke’s lesser mouse-tailed bat and long-tailed bat, it is named after Major General Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835), an English soldier and naturalist who served many years in India. It is found in North Africa, some parts of central and eastern Africa, West Asia and east to the Indian subcontinent.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser mouse-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Rhinopomatidae family:
- Greater mouse-tailed bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Small mouse-tailed bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser mouse-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinopoma hardwickii:
- Tomes’s sword-nosed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Arizona pocket mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Taiga shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- African black shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Marsh shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Eptesicus demissus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Eastern broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Mediterranean water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lesser mouse-tailed bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lesser mouse-tailed bat:
- Tailed tailless bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Western harvest mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fat mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rhinolophus hilli with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Parnell’s mustached bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Temminck’s mouse with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)