It is hard to guess what a Long-fingered bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-fingered bat (Myotis capaccinii) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Long-fingered bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.9 cm (0′ 3″).
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 long-fingered bat (Myotis capaccinii) is a carnivorous species of vesper bat. It is native to coastal areas around the Mediterranean Sea, as well as a few patches of land in western Iran. Due to the fact that its population is in decline, it is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1988.
Animals of the same family as a Long-fingered bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Painted bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Little brown bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Gray bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Papillose woolly bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Western small-footed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Harlequin bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Brandt’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Yellowish myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Banana pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-fingered bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis capaccinii:
- Gray climbing mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Lander’s horseshoe bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Darling’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Smoky shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris nicefori bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-fingered bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Jackson’s shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Micronomus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale