It is hard to guess what a Shamel’s horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Shamel’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus shameli) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Shamel’s horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.14 meter (3′ 9″).
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.
Shamel’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus shameli) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.The eponym for the species name “shameli” was American mammalogist H. Harold Shamel.
Animals of the same family as a Shamel’s horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Rufous horseshoe bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Rhinolophus simplex with a weight of 6 grams
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Great roundleaf bat with a weight of 50 grams
- Rufous trident bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Telefomin roundleaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat with a weight of 40 grams
- Noack’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Large Asian roundleaf bat with a weight of 31 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Shamel’s horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus shameli:
- Little white-shouldered bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Natal long-fingered bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Large-eared pied bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris brachyotis bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Chestnut climbing mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Greater sac-winged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Paucident planigale bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Leach’s single leaf bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Hinde’s lesser house bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Brown long-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale