It is hard to guess what a Spurrell’s free-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Spurrell’s free-tailed bat (Mops spurrelli) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Spurrell’s free-tailed bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Mops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.45 meter (4′ 10″).
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.
Spurrell’s free-tailed bat (Mops spurrelli) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae named after Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Spurrell’s free-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Peters’s flat-headed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Mexican free-tailed bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat with a weight of 15 grams
- White-bellied free-tailed bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Spotted free-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Sanborn’s bonneted bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Brown mastiff bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Cinnamon dog-faced bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Medje free-tailed bat with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Spurrell’s free-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mops spurrelli:
- Myotis bocagei bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Geata mouse shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Chocolate wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Baird’s shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Tundra shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Honey possum bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Common shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale