It is hard to guess what a Brown tent-making bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown tent-making bat (Uroderma magnirostrum) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Brown tent-making bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Uroderma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 47.2 cm (1′ 7″).
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 brown tent-making bat (Uroderma magnirostrum) is a bat species from South and Central America.
Animals of the same family as a Brown tent-making bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Broad-toothed tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Leach’s single leaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Red fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Golden bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Little big-eared bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Striped hairy-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brown tent-making bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Uroderma magnirostrum:
- Wood sprite gracile opossum bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Little wood mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tongued bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Lesser red musk shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Savanna path shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Neacomys tenuipes bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Steppe lemming bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Tent-making bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Eastern shrew mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Brown fruit-eating bat bringing 19 grams to the scale