It is hard to guess what a Malagasy serotine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Malagasy serotine (Eptesicus matroka) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Malagasy serotine is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Eptesicus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.2 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Malagasy serotines 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 Malagasy serotine (Neoromicia matroka), is a species of vesper bat.It is found only in Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Malagasy serotine
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Black myotis with a weight of 2 grams
- Gray bat with a weight of 10 grams
- White-winged serotine with a weight of 5 grams
- Evening bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Allen’s spotted bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Keen’s myotis with a weight of 6 grams
- Serotine bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Brandt’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Nut-colored yellow bat with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Malagasy serotine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eptesicus matroka:
- White-bellied big-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Montane myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Yellow-lipped bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Jones’s roundleaf bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Greater Papuan pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Indiana bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Grey long-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Malagasy serotine
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Malagasy serotine:
- Great fruit-eating bat with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little native mouse with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Paratriaenops furculus with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tundra shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu shrew with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Crowned shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale shrew tenrec with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Malagasy serotine
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Malagasy serotine: