It is hard to guess what a Rendall’s serotine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rendall’s serotine (Neoromicia rendalli) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Rendall’s serotine is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Neoromicia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.4 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Rendall’s serotine (Neoromicia rendalli) is a species of vesper bat.It is found in Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Rendall’s serotine
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Yellow-lipped bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Little forest bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Greater Papuan pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
- Northern broad-nosed bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Chocolate wattled bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Asian particolored bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Nut-colored yellow bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Great bent-winged bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Eastern red bat with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Rendall’s serotine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neoromicia rendalli:
- Saharan shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Benito roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Ozimops loriae bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Daubenton’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Diminutive serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Ludia’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Southeastern myotis bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Silver-tipped myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale