It is hard to guess what a Lesser mouse-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma hardwickei) 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″). On average, Lesser mouse-tailed 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 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 hardwickei:
- Flat-skulled shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Greater long-fingered bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Orange nectar bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Trefoil horseshoe bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Scaly-footed small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Lesser large-headed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Allen’s big-eared bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed dunnart bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Little long-tailed dunnart bringing 14 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:
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater bulldog bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hairy big-eyed bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser mouse-tailed bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lesser mouse-tailed bat: