It is hard to guess what a Big-eared woolly bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Big-eared woolly bat (Chrotopterus auritus) on average weights 78 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Big-eared woolly bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Chrotopterus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.3 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Big-eared woolly 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 big-eared woolly bat or (Peters’s) woolly false vampire bat (Chrotopterus auritus) is a species of bat, belonging to the Order Chiroptera and Family Phyllostomidae.The name Chrotopterus is derived from Greek roots chariots (skin, color), and pteron (wing). The epithet auritus refers to the large ears.
Animals of the same family as a Big-eared woolly bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Striped hairy-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Tonatia carrikeri with a weight of 22 grams
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Big-eared woolly bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chrotopterus auritus:
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Andean mouse bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Oecomys phaeotis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Kaiser’s rock rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Big-eared climbing rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Web-footed tenrec bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Angular hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Plains viscacha rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- San Quintin kangaroo rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Big-eared woolly bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Big-eared woolly bat:
- Mexican volcano mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Champion’s tree mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Macroscelides proboscideus with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mongolian gerbil with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Big-eared woolly bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Big-eared woolly bat: