It is hard to guess what a Somali serotine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Somali serotine (Eptesicus somalicus) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Somali serotine is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Eptesicus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.4 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Somali serotines have 2 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.
The Somali serotine (Neoromicia somalica) is a species of vesper bat.It is found in Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Somali serotine
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Long-tailed house bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle with a weight of 10 grams
- Pipistrellus babu with a weight of 4 grams
- Asian barbastelle with a weight of 15 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
- Szechwan myotis with a weight of 11 grams
- Big-eared brown bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Somali serotine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eptesicus somalicus:
- Crawford’s gray shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Rusty pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Pygmy shrew tenrec bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Elegant myotis bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Saussure’s shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Ridley’s bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Light-winged lesser house bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Dent’s shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Percival’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Somali serotine
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Somali serotine:
- Siberian large-toothed shrew with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean planigale with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Serra do Mar grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Somali serotine
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Somali serotine: