It is hard to guess what a Dusky leaf-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dusky leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros ater) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Dusky leaf-nosed bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Hipposideros). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.55 meter (5′ 2″). Usually, Dusky leaf-nosed 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 dusky leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros ater) is a bat from the genus Hipposideros whose habitat extends from India and Sri Lanka to the Philippines, New Guinea and Northern Australia. This species is counted in the H. bicolor species group and was formerly classified within that species.The genus name Hipposideros comes from the Greek words for “horse” (ἴππος) and “iron” (σίδηρος) and means “horseshoe”; a reference to the complex nose that species in this genus are known for. The generic designation ater is Latin for “black” and notes the relative dark color of this species’s coat.
Animals of the same family as a Dusky leaf-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Bushveld horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Temminck’s trident bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Intermediate roundleaf bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Cyclops roundleaf bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Mehely’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 92 grams
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Indian roundleaf bat with a weight of 44 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dusky leaf-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hipposideros ater:
- Salenski’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Chinese pipistrelle bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Malagasy serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
- White-winged serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Eastern small-footed myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Tiny fat mouse bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Thailand roundleaf bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-tongued bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Dusky leaf-nosed bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Dusky leaf-nosed bat: