It is hard to guess what a Mato Grosso dog-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (Molossops mattogrossensis) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Mato Grosso dog-faced bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Molossops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.3 cm (0′ 6″). Normally, Mato Grosso dog-faced bats can have babies 1 times a year.
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 Mato Grosso dog-faced bat (Neoplatymops mattogrossensis), is a bat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Mato Grosso dog-faced bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Dwarf free-tailed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Peters’s flat-headed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Cinnamon dog-faced bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Wroughton’s free-tailed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Ozimops planiceps with a weight of 9 grams
- Brown mastiff bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Molossops planirostris with a weight of 12 grams
- Wagner’s bonneted bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Sierra Leone free-tailed bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Para dog-faced bat with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mato Grosso dog-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Molossops mattogrossensis:
- Alpine shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Long-legged myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Toad mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Western long-tongued bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Coelops frithi bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Pygmy gerbil bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s nectar bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Gambian slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- White-bellied big-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Baird’s shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale