It is hard to guess what a Rüppell’s pipistrelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rüppell’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus rueppellii) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Rüppell’s pipistrelle is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.5 cm (0′ 2″). Usually, Rüppell’s pipistrelles 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.
Rüppell’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus rueppellii) is a species of vesper bat found in Africa and Asian republics such as Iraq and Israel. It is found in dry and moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and hot deserts.
Animals of the same family as a Rüppell’s pipistrelle
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Hoary wattled bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Malagasy serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Asian particolored bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Myotis vivesi with a weight of 25 grams
- Moloney’s mimic bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per litter
- Montane myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Eastern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Eastern small-footed myotis with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Rüppell’s pipistrelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus rueppellii:
- Long-legged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Miniopterus macrocneme bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Gambian slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed planigale bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket mouse bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Northern birch mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-bellied shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Croslet horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Savi’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Daubenton’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Rüppell’s pipistrelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Rüppell’s pipistrelle:
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine with a size of 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Lesser horseshoe bat with a size of 3.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Desert pocket mouse with a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Fringed myotis with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Preble’s shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a size of 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rufous trident bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Rüppell’s pipistrelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Rüppell’s pipistrelle: