It is hard to guess what a Southwestern myotis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southwestern myotis (Myotis auriculus) on average weights 38 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Southwestern myotis is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). They can live for up to 3.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Southwestern myotiss have 1 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 southwestern myotis (Myotis auriculus) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Guatemala, Mexico, and in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Southwestern myotis
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Fly River trumpet-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Brandt’s bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Greater noctule bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Gould’s wattled bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per litter
- Cave myotis with a weight of 9 grams
- Rohu’s bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Western small-footed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Evening bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southwestern myotis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis auriculus:
- Singing vole bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Day’s grass mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Jalapan pine vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Hatt’s vesper rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Himalayan striped squirrel bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Lesser tree mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Mexican vole bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Blackish deer mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Cape golden mole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori thicket rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Southwestern myotis
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Southwestern myotis:
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Small flying fox
- African sheath-tailed bat
- Black-crested Sumatran langur
- Wolf’s mona monkey
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat
- Leschenault’s rousette
- Red-tailed squirrel
- Black duiker
- Big-eared woolly bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Southwestern myotis
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Southwestern myotis:
- Yellow-footed antechinus with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Long-nosed echymipera with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Southwestern water vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Sminthopsis laniger with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Red hocicudo with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- African wading rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Bicolored shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Common vole with an average maximal age of 3 years