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How much does a Bates’s slit-faced bat weight?

It is hard to guess what a Bates’s slit-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:

An adult Bates’s slit-faced bat (Nycteris arge) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).

The Bates’s slit-faced bat is from the family Nycteridae (genus: Nycteris). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 44.8 cm (1′ 6″).

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 average adult weight of a Bates's slit-faced bat is 10 grams (0.02 lbs)

Bate’s slit-faced bat (Nycteris arge) is a species of slit-faced bat frequently confused with Nycteris major. It is broadly distributed and common, living throughout many parts of Africa in forests and savannas.

Animals of the same family as a Bates’s slit-faced bat

We found other animals of the Nycteridae family:

Animals with the same weight as a Bates’s slit-faced bat

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nycteris arge: