It is hard to guess what a Red myotis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red myotis (Myotis ruber) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Red myotis is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.1 meter (16′ 9″).
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 red myotis (Myotis ruber) is a vesper bat species found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Animals of the same family as a Red myotis
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Rohu’s bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Nyctophilus arnhemensis with a weight of 6 grams
- Miniopterus macrocneme with a weight of 7 grams
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Dark-winged lesser house bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Brown pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Flores woolly bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Greater tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Silver-haired bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Canyon bat with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red myotis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis ruber:
- White-winged serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Flores woolly bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Iberian shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Yellow-lipped bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Crawford’s gray shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Tricolored bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Wollaston’s roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Cape serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Cinereus shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale