It is hard to guess what a Lesser noctule weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser noctule (Nyctalus leisleri) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Lesser noctule is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Nyctalus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.4 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Lesser noctules 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 noctule, Leisler’s bat or the Irish bat (Nyctalus leisleri), is a species of insectivorous bat belonging to the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser noctule
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Spurrell’s woolly bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Rohu’s bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Zulu serotine with a weight of 4 grams
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle with a weight of 15 grams
- Large-footed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per litter
- Rufous mouse-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Horsfield’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 36 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser noctule
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctalus leisleri:
- Silky short-tailed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Montane white-toothed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Orange nectar bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Tacarcuna bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Yellow serotine bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Negros shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Common planigale bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Merida small-eared shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser noctule
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lesser noctule: