It is hard to guess what a Western small-footed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western small-footed bat (Myotis ciliolabrum) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Western small-footed bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 5″).
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 western small-footed bat (Myotis ciliolabrum), also known as the western small-footed myotis, is a species of vesper bat native to North America.
Animals of the same family as a Western small-footed bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Flores woolly bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Fringed myotis with a weight of 8 grams
- Brazilian brown bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with a weight of 7 grams
- Nyctophilus corbeni with a weight of 11 grams
- Yellow serotine with a weight of 10 grams
- Myotis bocagei with a weight of 7 grams
- Northern bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Western false pipistrelle with a weight of 23 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Western small-footed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis ciliolabrum:
- Eurasian pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Yellow-lipped bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Thailand roundleaf bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Proboscis bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Clear-winged woolly bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Maclaud’s horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale