It is hard to guess what a Spotted free-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Spotted free-tailed bat (Chaerephon bivittatus) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Spotted free-tailed bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Chaerephon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.1 cm (0′ 9″).
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 spotted free-tailed bat (Chaerephon bivittatus) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. It is found in Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, and rocky areas.
Animals of the same family as a Spotted free-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Cinnamon dog-faced bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Pocketed free-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Underwood’s bonneted bat with a weight of 58 grams
- Big free-tailed bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Big crested mastiff bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Wroughton’s free-tailed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Nigerian free-tailed bat with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Spotted free-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaerephon bivittatus:
- Desert pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Peale’s free-tailed bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- American water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Pocketed free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Nyika climbing mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Miller’s long-tongued bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew tenrec bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Western pygmy possum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Tacarcuna bat bringing 12 grams to the scale