It is hard to guess what a Myotis bocagei weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Myotis bocagei (Myotis bocagei) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Myotis bocagei 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.
Animals of the same family as a Myotis bocagei
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle with a weight of 15 grams
- Western barbastelle with a weight of 8 grams
- Lesser noctule with a weight of 12 grams
- Nyctophilus corbeni with a weight of 11 grams
- Botta’s serotine with a weight of 15 grams
- Clear-winged woolly bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Tiny pipistrelle with a weight of 2 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Southeastern myotis with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Myotis bocagei
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis bocagei:
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Northern birch mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Peters’s musk shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Nyctophilus arnhemensis bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Long-eared myotis bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Lesser woolly bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Bushveld horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dent’s horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Sind bat bringing 7 grams to the scale