It is hard to guess what a Yellow serotine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow serotine (Neoromicia flavescens) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Yellow serotine is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Neoromicia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.4 cm (0′ 6″).
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:
- Rufous mouse-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Canyon bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Western bent-winged bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Gould’s long-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Northern cave bat with 1 babies per litter
- Serotine bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Broad-headed pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Eastern forest bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Malagasy serotine with a weight of 6 grams
- Seminole bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow serotine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neoromicia flavescens:
- Mahomet mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Mexican free-tailed bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Eastern red bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris nicefori bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Tonatia brasiliense bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Antillean ghost-faced bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Andean small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale