It is hard to guess what a Silvered bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Silvered bat (Glauconycteris argentata) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Silvered bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Glauconycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
The silvered bat (Glauconycteris argentata) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, and Tanzania.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Silvered bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Brown pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Tiny yellow bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Southern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Big-eared brown bat with a weight of 11 grams
- California myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Abo bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Little pied bat with 2 babies per litter
- Damara woolly bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Horsfield’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Silvered bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Glauconycteris argentata:
- Tailed tailless bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Large-toothed shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Little free-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Hoary wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Alpine shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Reddish-gray musk shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Jouvenet’s shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Fog shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale