It is hard to guess what a Tricolored bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tricolored bat (Pipistrellus subflavus) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Tricolored bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Pipistrellus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 15 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.4 cm (0′ 2″). On average, Tricolored bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus) is a species of microbat native to eastern North America. Formerly known as the eastern pipistrelle, based on the errant belief that it was closely related to European Pipistrellus species, the closest known relative of the tricolored bat is now recognized as the canyon bat. Its common name “tricolored bat” derives from the coloration of the hairs on its back, which have three distinct color bands. It is the smallest bat species in the eastern and midwestern US, with individuals weighing only 4.6–7.9 g (0.16–0.28 oz). This species mates in the fall before hibernation, though due to sperm storage, females do not become pregnant until the spring. Young are born helpless, though rapidly develop, flying and foraging for themselves by four weeks old. It has a relatively long lifespan, and can live nearly fifteen years.In the summer, females roost in small groups and males roost solitarily in tree foliage or beard lichen. It eats a diverse array of insects, foraging with a slow, erratic flight and navigating via echolocation. Though once considered one of the most common bat species in its range, its populations have declined rapidly since 2006 with the introduction of the fungal disease white-nose syndrome. It was listed as an endangered species in 2012 in Canada, and has been petitioned for inclusion on the US endangered species list. Along with the silver-haired bat, the tricolored bat is one of two bat species whose rabies variants have most frequently been implicated in human rabies deaths in the US, with sixteen deaths from 1958–2000.
Animals of the same family as a Tricolored bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Intermediate long-fingered bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Western broad-nosed bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Common bent-wing bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Little brown bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Chocolate wattled bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Painted bat with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tricolored bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pipistrellus subflavus:
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Vagrant shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Japanese house bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Yuma myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Little big-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- White-winged serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Yellow-lipped bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Tricolored bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Tricolored bat:
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Grivet
- Kirk’s dik-dik
- Ground pangolin
- Southern muriqui
- Rufous hare-wallaby
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Collared peccary
- Bharal
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Tricolored bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Tricolored bat:
- Menzbier’s marmot with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Golden jackal with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Giant eland with an average maximal age of 16.17 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 12.33 years
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Oribi with an average maximal age of 15.75 years
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Zebra duiker with an average maximal age of 12.17 years