It is hard to guess what a Big naked-backed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Big naked-backed bat (Pteronotus gymnonotus) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Big naked-backed bat is from the family Mormoopidae (genus: Pteronotus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.9 cm (0′ 10″).
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 naked-backed bat (Pteronotus gymnonotus), is a bat species from South and Central America.
Animals of the same family as a Big naked-backed bat
We found other animals of the Mormoopidae family:
- Antillean ghost-faced bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Parnell’s mustached bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Antillean ghost-faced bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Wagner’s mustached bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Sooty mustached bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Ghost-faced bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Davy’s naked-backed bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Big naked-backed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteronotus gymnonotus:
- Taiva shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Peters’s mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Gould’s wattled bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Rufous horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Tropical big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Dark kangaroo mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Southern dog-faced bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Ussuri shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale