It is hard to guess what a Melissa’s yellow-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Melissa’s yellow-eared bat (Vampyressa melissa) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Melissa’s yellow-eared bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Vampyressa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 0″).
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.
Melissa’s yellow-eared bat (Vampyressa melissa) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in southern Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Melissa’s yellow-eared bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Schultz’s round-eared bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Heller’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Silver fruit-eating bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Micronycteris brachyotis with a weight of 10 grams
- White-throated round-eared bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Tailed tailless bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Fischer’s little fruit bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Micronycteris sylvestris with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Melissa’s yellow-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vampyressa melissa:
- Northern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Big brown bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed dunnart bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Turbo shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Intermediate horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- House mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Gerbil mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Sandy inland mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale