It is hard to guess what a Zulu serotine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Zulu serotine (Neoromicia zuluensis) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Zulu serotine is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Neoromicia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3.7 cm (0′ 2″).
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 Zulu serotine (Neoromicia zuluensis), also called the Zulu pipistrelle, aloe bat, or aloe serotine, is a species of vesper bat found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, and hot deserts.
Animals of the same family as a Zulu serotine
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Cape serotine with a weight of 5 grams
- Scully’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Hairy-tailed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Savi’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Groove-toothed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Zulu serotine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Neoromicia zuluensis:
- North American least shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Pipistrellus babu bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Rusty pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Doucet’s musk shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Java pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Least long-fingered bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Brown tube-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Percival’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale