It is hard to guess what a Lesser sheath-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura monticola) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Lesser sheath-tailed bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Emballonura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 57.4 cm (1′ 11″). Usually, Lesser sheath-tailed bats have 1 babies per litter.
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 sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura monticola) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in the Malay Peninsula (including Myanmar and Thailand), Borneo (both Indonesia and Malaysia), and many other parts of the Indonesian Archipelago (e.g., Sulawesi, Java, Sumatra). It is locally threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser sheath-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Egyptian tomb bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Isabelle’s ghost bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with a weight of 31 grams
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Taphozous philippinensis with a weight of 20 grams
- Gray sac-winged bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Chestnut sac-winged bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser sheath-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Emballonura monticola:
- Dwarf slit-faced bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Ridley’s bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Groove-toothed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Pygmy shrew tenrec bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Schlieffen’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Chinese pipistrelle bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Jones’s roundleaf bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Clear-winged woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser sheath-tailed bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lesser sheath-tailed bat: