It is hard to guess what a Moloney’s mimic bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Moloney’s mimic bat (Mimetillus moloneyi) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Moloney’s mimic bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Mimetillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.6 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Moloney’s mimic bat (Mimetillus moloneyi) is a species of vesper bat. It can be found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. It is found in subtropical or tropical dry or moist forests, subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, dry and moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Moloney’s mimic bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Damara woolly bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Painted bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Gould’s wattled bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Hairy-legged myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Asian particolored bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Western bent-winged bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Nyctophilus geoffroyi with a weight of 2 grams
- Mexican big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Pygmy long-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Moloney’s mimic bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mimetillus moloneyi:
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Shamel’s horseshoe bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Lesser brown horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Crowned shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Silvered bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Southern little yellow-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Antillean ghost-faced bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Plains pocket mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Burmese whiskered bat bringing 8 grams to the scale