It is hard to guess what a Thick-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Thick-eared bat (Eptesicus pachyotis) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Thick-eared bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Eptesicus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.2 cm (0′ 4″).
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 thick-eared bat (Eptesicus pachyotis) is a species of vesper bat native to China, India, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Thailand. Very little is known about the status and ecology of this bat, except that it may prefer to inhabit tropical moist deciduous forests.
Animals of the same family as a Thick-eared bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Whitehead’s woolly bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Heller’s pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
- Greater long-fingered bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Great evening bat with a weight of 49 grams
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Bronze tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Sind bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Flores woolly bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Pygmy long-eared bat with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Thick-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eptesicus pachyotis:
- Western long-tongued bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Triaenops rufus bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Northern birch mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-bellied shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Greater white-toothed shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Little native mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Ozimops planiceps bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Egyptian pygmy shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale