It is hard to guess what a Narrow-winged pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Narrow-winged pipistrelle (Pipistrellus stenopterus) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Narrow-winged pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.4 cm (0′ 2″).
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 narrow-winged pipistrelle (Pipistrellus stenopterus) is a species of vesper bat. It can be found in Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Narrow-winged pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Black myotis with a weight of 2 grams
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Nut-colored yellow bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Least pipistrelle with a weight of 4 grams
- Diminutive serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Northern yellow bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Asian barbastelle with a weight of 15 grams
- Southern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Narrow-winged pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus stenopterus:
- Sinaloan pocket mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Moonshine shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Chinese shrew mole bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Mexican harvest mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed dunnart bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale