It is hard to guess what a Bushveld horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bushveld horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus simulator) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Bushveld 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.
The Bushveld horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus simulator) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae.It is found in Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are moist savanna, caves, and subterranean habitats (other than caves). It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Bushveld horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Dent’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Borneo roundleaf bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Cyclops roundleaf bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Telefomin roundleaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Darling’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Jones’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Rufous horseshoe bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Intermediate horseshoe bat with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bushveld horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus simulator:
- Siberian large-toothed shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Tasmanian pygmy possum bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Beatrix’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Evening bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris nicefori bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Long-fingered bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dark-winged lesser house bat bringing 9 grams to the scale