It is hard to guess what a Natterer’s bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Natterer’s bat (Myotis nattereri) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Natterer’s bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). They can live for up to 15 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.1 meter (16′ 9″). On average, Natterer’s bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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.
Natterer’s bat (Myotis nattereri) is a European vespertilionid bat with pale wings. It has brown fur tending to greyish-white on its underside. It is found across most of the continent of Europe, parts of the Near East and North Africa. It feeds on insects and other invertebrates which it catches on the wing or pursues on the ground.In summer it roosts in deciduous and coniferous trees, buildings or bat boxes close to its feeding habitats. In winter it hibernates in caves, tunnels, mines or cellars, usually hiding in crevices. This bat was first described in 1817 by Heinrich Kuhl, who named it in honour of the Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer.
Animals of the same family as a Natterer’s bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Greater tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Lesser long-fingered bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Golden-tipped bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Brandt’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Hoary bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per litter
- Eastern false pipistrelle with a weight of 22 grams
- Least long-fingered bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Southern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Natterer’s bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis nattereri:
- Savanna dwarf shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Peters’s musk shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Toad mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Baird’s shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Lesser brown horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Daubenton’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Bourret’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Gambian slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Brown pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Natterer’s bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Natterer’s bat:
- Lar gibbon
- Little red brocket
- Nabarlek
- East Caucasian tur
- Philippine flying lemur
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat
- Eastern forest bat
- Wroughton’s free-tailed bat
- Gray dorcopsis
- Tibetan macaque
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Natterer’s bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Natterer’s bat:
- White-tailed mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Mohol bushbaby with an average maximal age of 16.5 years
- Bohor reedbuck with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Long-tailed goral with an average maximal age of 13.17 years
- Allied rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Red forest duiker with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Sugar glider with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Giant otter with an average maximal age of 12.83 years
- Black-footed cat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Common warthog with an average maximal age of 15 years