It is hard to guess what a White-bellied yellow bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-bellied yellow bat (Scotophilus leucogaster) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The White-bellied yellow bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Scotophilus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.6 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, White-bellied yellow 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.
The white-bellied yellow bat (Scotophilus leucogaster) or white-bellied house bat, is a species of vesper bat in the genus Scotophilus, the house bats. It can be found in Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. It is found in dry and moist savanna and open woodland. It is a common species with a very wide range, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a White-bellied yellow bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Moloney’s mimic bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Eastern small-footed myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Chinese pipistrelle with a weight of 5 grams
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Evening bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Sind bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Surat serotine with a weight of 13 grams
- Large-footed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Flute-nosed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Hairy-tailed bat with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-bellied yellow bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Scotophilus leucogaster:
- Forrest’s mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Chestnut dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-nosed bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Cerrado mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Pallid bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- African smoky mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Serotine bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a White-bellied yellow bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a White-bellied yellow bat: