It is hard to guess what a Railer bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Railer bat (Mops thersites) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Railer bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Mops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.45 meter (4′ 10″). On average, Railer bats can have babies 2 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.
The Railer bat (Mops thersites) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.One of the unique features of the Molossolid bats, such as the railer bat is that they have two sets of parotid glands. This is uncommon as most species of bats have two sets of submandibular glands.
Animals of the same family as a Railer bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Mongalla free-tailed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Molossops abrasus with a weight of 35 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Sierra Leone free-tailed bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Big free-tailed bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Peale’s free-tailed bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Big bonneted bat with a weight of 83 grams
- Ozimops planiceps with a weight of 9 grams
- Mato Grosso dog-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Railer bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mops thersites:
- Kangaroo Island dunnart bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Aceramarca gracile opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Western shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Harlequin bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Least gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Asian particolored bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed caenolestid bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Great Basin pocket mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Railer bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Railer bat: