It is hard to guess what a Schlieffen’s bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Schlieffen’s bat (Nycticeinops schlieffeni) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Schlieffen’s bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Nycticeinops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). 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:
- Long-tailed house bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Canyon bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Long-fingered bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Myotis bocagei with a weight of 7 grams
- Silvered bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Little bent-wing bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
- Damara woolly bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Schlieffen’s bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nycticeinops schlieffeni:
- Riparian myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least horseshoe bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Pilbara ningaui bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Slender shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Clear-winged woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Gray sac-winged bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Mexican funnel-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus simplex 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: