It is hard to guess what a Greater spear-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus) on average weights 91 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Greater spear-nosed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Phyllostomus). It is usually born with about 15 grams (0.03 lbs). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). Normally, Greater spear-nosed 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 greater spear-nosed bat (Phyllostomus hastatus) is a bat species of the family Phyllostomidae from South and Central America. It is one of the larger bats of this region and is omnivorous.
Animals of the same family as a Greater spear-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Micronycteris nicefori with a weight of 8 grams
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Tree bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Brown fruit-eating bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Fringed fruit-eating bat with a weight of 63 grams
- Golden bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Visored bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Tricolored big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater spear-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phyllostomus hastatus:
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Definitive leaf-eared mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Central rock rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Slender Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Red rock rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Cape gerbil bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Beady-eyed mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Buller’s chipmunk bringing 100 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater spear-nosed bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater spear-nosed bat:
- Star-nosed mole with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Steppe lemming with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Monito del monte with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bornean water shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Greater spear-nosed bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Greater spear-nosed bat:
- Southern tree hyrax with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Marbled polecat with an average maximal age of 8.92 years
- Whiskered bat with an average maximal age of 9.25 years
- Maned sloth with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Congo rope squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Spectral tarsier with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon with an average maximal age of 11.33 years
- Bengal fox with an average maximal age of 10 years