It is hard to guess what a Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus clivosus) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.6 cm (0′ 1″).
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.
Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus clivosus) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae found in Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, caves, subterranean habitats (other than caves), and hot deserts.
Animals of the same family as a Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Insular horseshoe bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Intermediate horseshoe bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Bushveld horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Indian roundleaf bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Wollaston’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Pearson’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Rhinolophus sedulus with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus clivosus:
- Japanese house bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Ludia’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Spix’s disk-winged bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- African pygmy mouse bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Borneo roundleaf bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Sahelian tiny shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Cape serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale