It is hard to guess what a Blasius’s horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Blasius’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus blasii) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Blasius’s horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3.74 meter (12′ 4″).
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.
Blasius’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus blasii) is a species of insectivorous bat in the family Rhinolophidae found throughout large parts of the Mediterranean, Middle East and Northern Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Blasius’s horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Intermediate roundleaf bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Least horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Lander’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Croslet horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Mehely’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Maggie Taylor’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Noack’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Blasius’s horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus blasii:
- Eastern broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Allen’s big-eared bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Small bent-winged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Tailed tailless bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Leach’s single leaf bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus sedulus bringing 8 grams to the scale