It is hard to guess what a Lesser woolly bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser woolly bat (Kerivoula lanosa) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Lesser woolly bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Kerivoula). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.2 cm (0′ 5″).
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 woolly bat (Kerivoula lanosa) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.It is found in Botswana, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and rarely Ethiopia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, and moist savanna. Members of this species typically have a dark greyish brown fur with whitish tips scattered throughout.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser woolly bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Banana pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
- Fly River trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Eastern long-fingered bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Riparian myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Big brown bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
- Red myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Allen’s spotted bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Asian particolored bat with a weight of 24 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser woolly bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Kerivoula lanosa:
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Large-eared tenrec bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Salenski’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Mount Lyell shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Schlieffen’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Beatrix’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale