It is hard to guess what a Nyctophilus corbeni weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Nyctophilus corbeni (Nyctophilus timoriensis) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Nyctophilus corbeni is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Nyctophilus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Nyctophilus corbenis have 2 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.
Nyctophilus corbeni, commonly known as the south-eastern long-eared bat or Corben’s long-eared bat, is a species of bat found in Australia. It occurs in the woodlands of the Murray Darling Basin and adjacent areas.
Animals of the same family as a Nyctophilus corbeni
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Asian particolored bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Daubenton’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Beatrix’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Southwestern myotis with a weight of 38 grams
- Little forest bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Himalayan whiskered bat with a weight of 2 grams
- Western broad-nosed bat with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Nyctophilus corbeni
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctophilus timoriensis:
- Rufous horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s small-eared shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Surat serotine bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Brants’s climbing mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys altissimus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Plains harvest mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Greater long-tailed hamster bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Silvered bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Pacific shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Nyctophilus corbeni
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Nyctophilus corbeni: