It is hard to guess what a Ridley’s bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ridley’s bat (Myotis ridleyi) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Ridley’s bat 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.
Ridley’s bat (Myotis ridleyi) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Ridley’s bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Eastern false pipistrelle with a weight of 22 grams
- Pipistrellus babu with a weight of 4 grams
- Yellow serotine with a weight of 10 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Chinese pipistrelle with a weight of 5 grams
- Northern bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Clear-winged woolly bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Dark-winged lesser house bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Daubenton’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ridley’s bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis ridleyi:
- Carmen Mountain shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Doucet’s musk shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Borneo roundleaf bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- North American least shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- California myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Somali serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Groove-toothed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale