It is hard to guess what a Brock’s yellow-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brock’s yellow-eared bat (Vampyressa brocki) on average weights 48 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Brock’s yellow-eared bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Vampyressa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 0″).
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.
Brock’s yellow-eared bat (Vampyriscus brocki) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae, the leaf-nosed bats. It is native to South America, where it occurs in Brazil, Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, and Peru.This bat lives in evergreen forest. It eats mostly fruit. It breeds during the rainy season.
Animals of the same family as a Brock’s yellow-eared bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Gervais’s fruit-eating bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Mexican long-tongued bat with a weight of 17 grams
- White-bellied big-eared bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Tree bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Gray long-tongued bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Tonatia carrikeri with a weight of 22 grams
- Godman’s long-tailed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Gray short-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Brown flower bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Little big-eyed bat with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brock’s yellow-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vampyressa brocki:
- Córdoba vesper mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Hairy fruit-eating bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Naked mole-rat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Montane vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Flat-headed vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Mexican deer mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale