It is hard to guess what a Schlieffen’s bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Schlieffen’s bat (Nycticeius schlieffeni) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Schlieffen’s bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Nycticeius). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30 cm (1′ 0″). On average, Schlieffen’s bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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.
Schlieffen’s bat or Schlieffen’s twilight bat (Nycticeinops schlieffeni) is a species of vesper bat found in Africa. It has been placed in numerous genera since its first description in 1859, but morphological and genetic studies have confirmed it as the only species in the genus Nycticeinops. It is named for the collector of the original specimen, Wilhelm von Schlieffen-Schlieffiennburg.
Animals of the same family as a Schlieffen’s bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Large forest bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Northern bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Geoffroy’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Bronze tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Hoary wattled bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Pond bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Large-footed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Pallid large-footed myotis with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Schlieffen’s bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nycticeius schlieffeni:
- Cape serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Dormer’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Long-eared myotis bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Blyth’s horseshoe bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Savi’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Japanese house bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Crawford’s gray shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Remy’s pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Laxmann’s shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Schlieffen’s bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Schlieffen’s bat: