It is hard to guess what a Benito roundleaf bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Benito roundleaf bat (Hipposideros beatus) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Benito roundleaf bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Hipposideros). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.55 meter (5′ 2″).
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 Benito roundleaf bat (Hipposideros beatus) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Togo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Benito roundleaf bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Rufous trident bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Bushveld horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Lesser brown horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Borneo roundleaf bat with a weight of 2 grams
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Darling’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Benito roundleaf bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hipposideros beatus:
- Greater bamboo bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Southern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Tundra shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Sooty mustached bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Elgon shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Bronze tube-nosed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale