It is hard to guess what a Tickell’s bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tickell’s bat (Hesperoptenus tickelli) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Tickell’s bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Hesperoptenus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 47.8 cm (1′ 7″). Usually, Tickell’s bats 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.
Tickell’s bat (Hesperoptenus tickelli) is a species of vesper bat. It can be found in the following countries: Bangladesh Bhutan, Cambodia, possibly China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Animals of the same family as a Tickell’s bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Tacarcuna bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Light-winged lesser house bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Brazilian brown bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Botswanan long-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Angulate pipistrelle with a weight of 3 grams
- Long-eared myotis with a weight of 6 grams
- Variegated butterfly bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Natal long-fingered bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tickell’s bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hesperoptenus tickelli:
- Orange nectar bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Maggie Taylor’s roundleaf bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Ozimops beccarii bringing 14 grams to the scale
- White-collared fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Welwitsch’s bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Glacier Bay water shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Canyon mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Tickell’s bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Tickell’s bat: