It is hard to guess what a Velvety free-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Velvety free-tailed bat (Molossus molossus) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Velvety free-tailed bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Molossus). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Velvety free-tailed bats can have babies 2 times a year.
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 velvety free-tailed bat or Pallas’s mastiff bat (Molossus molossus), is a bat species in the family Molossidae.
Animals of the same family as a Velvety free-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Nigerian free-tailed bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Peters’s flat-headed bat with 1 babies per litter
- White-striped free-tailed bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Little free-tailed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Little free-tailed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- São Tomé free-tailed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Dwarf dog-faced bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Peters’s flat-headed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Velvety free-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Molossus molossus:
- Gray short-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Toltec fruit-eating bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Rohu’s bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Golden bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Welwitsch’s bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Eastern red bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Taiva shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Velvety free-tailed bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Velvety free-tailed bat:
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Balochistan gerbil with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern little yellow-eared bat with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a size of 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- American pygmy shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jamaican flower bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Trowbridge’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)