It is hard to guess what a Big-eared horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Big-eared horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus macrotis) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Big-eared horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2 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.
The big-eared horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus macrotis) is a bat species within the Rhinolophidae native to China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Animals of the same family as a Big-eared horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Rhinolophus hilli with a weight of 13 grams
- Northern leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Pomona roundleaf bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Thailand roundleaf bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Least horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Insular horseshoe bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Swinny’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 46 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Big-eared horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus macrotis:
- Yankari shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s nectar bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Least horseshoe bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Benito roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Saharan shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Indiana bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Tricolored bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus simplex bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Croslet horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Malayan pygmy shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale