It is hard to guess what a Bonda mastiff bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bonda mastiff bat (Molossus bondae) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Bonda mastiff bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Molossus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.3 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Bonda mastiff bat or Thomas’s mastiff bat (Molossus currentium), is a species of mastiff bat from South and Central America. It is named for the town of Bonda, near Santa Marta in Colombia.
Animals of the same family as a Bonda mastiff bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Molossops abrasus with a weight of 35 grams
- Pocketed free-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Black mastiff bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Egyptian free-tailed bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Ozimops loriae with a weight of 7 grams
- Dwarf dog-faced bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Broad-eared bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Peters’s flat-headed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Sierra Leone free-tailed bat with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bonda mastiff bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Molossus bondae:
- Ethiopian striped mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Botta’s serotine bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Pocketed free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Mehely’s horseshoe bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Bank vole bringing 20 grams to the scale