It is hard to guess what a Somali serotine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Somali serotine (Neoromicia somalicus) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Somali serotine is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Neoromicia). 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:
- Hinde’s lesser house bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Yellow-lipped bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Whitehead’s woolly bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Greater bamboo bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Eastern small-footed myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Great bent-winged bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Large-footed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Malagasy serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Somali serotine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neoromicia somalicus:
- Tiny yellow bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Johnston’s forest shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Inyo shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Least shrew tenrec bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thumbless bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Ashy roundleaf bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Volcano shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Pygmy shrew tenrec bringing 3 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:
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Meadow jumping mouse with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Slender harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Spiny pocket mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater white-toothed shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
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: