It is hard to guess what a Broad-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Broad-eared bat (Nyctinomops laticaudatus) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Broad-eared bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Nyctinomops). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.3 cm (0′ 4″). Normally, Broad-eared bats can have babies 1 times a year.
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 broad-eared bat, or broad-tailed bat (Nyctinomops laticaudatus), is a species of free-tailed bat from the Americas.
Animals of the same family as a Broad-eared bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Ozimops loriae with a weight of 7 grams
- Mexican free-tailed bat with a weight of 12 grams
- White-bellied free-tailed bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Little free-tailed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Peters’s flat-headed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Midas free-tailed bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Pocketed free-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Hairless bat with a weight of 169 grams
- New Guinea free-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctinomops laticaudatus:
- Mexican harvest mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Southeast Asian shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Piebald shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Greater ghost bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Welwitsch’s bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Lesser noctule bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Orange nectar bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Western pygmy possum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Little Indian field mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale