It is hard to guess what a Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura beccarii) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Emballonura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.7 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura beccarii) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found in New Guinea and in some nearby islands in both Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Northern ghost bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Black-bearded tomb bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with a weight of 31 grams
- Gray sac-winged bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Shaggy bat with a weight of 23 grams
- African sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Lesser dog-like bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Emballonura beccarii:
- Zulu serotine bringing 4 grams to the scale
- North American least shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Delany’s mouse bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Doucet’s musk shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Groove-toothed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Eurasian pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Cinereus shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale