It is hard to guess what a Pallid bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Pallid bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Antrozous). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 9.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.25 meter (4′ 2″). Usually, Pallid bats have 1 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.
The pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) is a species of bat that ranges from western Canada to central Mexico. It is the sole species of its genus and is closely related to Van Gelder’s bat (Bauerus dubiaquercus), which is sometimes included in Antrozous. Although it has in the past been placed in its own subfamily (Antrozoinae) or even family (Antrozoidae), it is now considered part of the subfamily Vespertilioninae and the tribe Antrozoini.
Animals of the same family as a Pallid bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Hoary bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Miniopterus macrocneme with a weight of 7 grams
- Thick-thumbed myotis with a weight of 3 grams
- Fringed myotis with a weight of 8 grams
- Brandt’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Brown long-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Lesser long-fingered bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Eastern red bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Bechstein’s bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pallid bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Antrozous pallidus:
- Agile gracile opossum bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Blackish white-toothed shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Incan caenolestid bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Woolly dormouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-faced bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Western false pipistrelle bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Pallid bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Pallid bat:
- Central American squirrel monkey
- Proserpine rock-wallaby
- Drill (animal)
- Acuminate horseshoe bat
- Scimitar oryx
- Rusty pipistrelle
- Marsh deer
- Four-horned antelope
- Spectral tarsier
- Fea’s muntjac
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pallid bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pallid bat:
- Rufous hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Fisher (animal) with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Crowned lemur with an average maximal age of 9.17 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Pacarana with an average maximal age of 9.33 years
- Maned rat with an average maximal age of 7.5 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Cape gray mongoose with an average maximal age of 8.67 years
- Eastern pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years