It is hard to guess what a Whiskered bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Whiskered bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Myotis). They can live for up to 9.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.1 meter (16′ 9″). On average, Whiskered 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 whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) and related species, are small European bats with long fur. Although uncommon, M. mystacinus is often found around human habitation and around water; it is similar to Brandt’s bat Myotis brandtii, from which it was distinguished as a separate species only in 1970.
Animals of the same family as a Whiskered bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Glen’s wattled bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Mexican big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Himalayan whiskered bat with a weight of 2 grams
- Flores woolly bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Small bent-winged bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Brazilian brown bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Intermediate long-fingered bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Silvered bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Indiana bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Grey long-eared bat with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Whiskered bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myotis mystacinus:
- Arabian pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thumbless bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Peters’s disk-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Curacao myotis bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Angulate pipistrelle bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Inyo shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Whitehead’s woolly bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Frosted sac-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thick-thumbed myotis bringing 3 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Whiskered bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Whiskered bat:
- Lesser kudu
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Banded palm civet
- Microcebus coquereli
- Sloth bear
- Spectacled flying fox
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Antilopine kangaroo
- Hamadryas baboon
- Seychelles fruit bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Whiskered bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Whiskered bat:
- Bush dog with an average maximal age of 10.33 years
- Common kusimanse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Leadbeater’s possum with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 9.75 years
- Common ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Eastern spotted skunk with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Crowned lemur with an average maximal age of 9.17 years
- White-tailed jackrabbit with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Greater bilby with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Long-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 10.08 years