It is hard to guess what a Hairy-legged vampire bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Hairy-legged vampire bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Diphylla). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.9 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Hairy-legged vampire 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 hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) is one of three extant species of vampire bats. It mainly feeds on the blood of wild birds, but can also feed both on domestic birds and humans. This vampire bat lives mainly in tropical and subtropical forestlands of South America, Central America, and southern Mexico. It is the sole member of the genus Diphylla.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy-legged vampire bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Tent-making bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a weight of 37 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Thomas’s nectar bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Handley’s tailless bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Silky short-tailed bat with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-legged vampire bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Diphylla ecaudata:
- Soft grass mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Yellow-necked mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Stolička’s mountain vole bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Scolomys melanops bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Stirton’s deer mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Blackish deer mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-legged vampire bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hairy-legged vampire bat:
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Burt’s deer mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser bulldog bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater mouse-eared bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hairy-legged vampire bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Hairy-legged vampire bat: