It is hard to guess what a Yellow serotine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow serotine (Eptesicus flavescens) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Yellow serotine is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Eptesicus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.2 cm (0′ 4″).
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 yellow serotine (Neoromicia flavescens) is a species of vesper bat.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Malawi, and Mozambique.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, dry savanna, and moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow serotine
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Tricolored bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Western broad-nosed bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Broad-headed pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Least woolly bat with a weight of 2 grams
- Surat serotine with a weight of 13 grams
- California myotis with a weight of 4 grams
- Dormer’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Zulu serotine with a weight of 4 grams
- Greater bamboo bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Big-eared brown bat with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow serotine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eptesicus flavescens:
- Rhinolophus sedulus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Fringed myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Peninsular horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Para dog-faced bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Gray long-tongued bat bringing 10 grams to the scale