It is hard to guess what a Bourret’s horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bourret’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus paradoxolophus) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Bourret’s horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.14 meter (3′ 9″).
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.
Bourret’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus paradoxolophus) is a species of horseshoe bat native to Southeast Asia. The name “paradoxolophus” is derived from the Greek words paradoxos, meaning “contrary to expectation”, and lophos, meaning “crest”. This name refers to the bat’s difference in nose-leaf morphology compared to other Rhinolophus species. There are no recognised subspecies.
Animals of the same family as a Bourret’s horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Arcuate horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Great roundleaf bat with a weight of 50 grams
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Rhinolophus sedulus with a weight of 8 grams
- Maclaud’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Lesser horseshoe bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Noack’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Intermediate horseshoe bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bourret’s horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus paradoxolophus:
- Myotis bocagei bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Silky pocket mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Antillean ghost-faced bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Western barbastelle bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Small bent-winged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Greater bamboo bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bicolored roundleaf bat bringing 8 grams to the scale