It is hard to guess what a Hairy slit-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairy slit-faced bat (Nycteris hispida) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Hairy slit-faced bat is from the family Nycteridae (genus: Nycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Hairy slit-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 hairy slit-faced bat (Nycteris hispida) is a species of slit-faced bat widely distributed throughout forests and savannas in Africa. Two recognized subspecies exist: N. h. hispida and N. h. pallida. Various forest populations in western and central Africa may be a separate species, although that has not been positively identified as of 2007.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy slit-faced bat
We found other animals of the Nycteridae family:
- Javan slit-faced bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Malayan slit-faced bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Large slit-faced bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Bates’s slit-faced bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Malagasy slit-faced bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Dwarf slit-faced bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Large-eared slit-faced bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Wood’s slit-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Egyptian slit-faced bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Gambian slit-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy slit-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nycteris hispida:
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-tongued bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dormer’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- East Asian tailless leaf-nosed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Siberian large-toothed shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Little big-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Chocolate wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dent’s horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Iberian shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale