It is hard to guess what a Chestnut long-tongued bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chestnut long-tongued bat (Lionycteris spurrelli) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Chestnut long-tongued bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Lionycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.8 cm (0′ 5″).
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 chestnut long-tongued bat (Lionycteris spurrelli) is a bat species from South and Central America. It is monotypic within its genus.
Animals of the same family as a Chestnut long-tongued bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Tree bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Handley’s tailless bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Guianan spear-nosed bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Velvety fruit-eating bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Aztec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 20 grams
- White-throated round-eared bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chestnut long-tongued bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lionycteris spurrelli:
- Crowned shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Godman’s long-tailed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Blackish small-eared shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Ridley’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Eurasian harvest mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Darling’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Botswanan long-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Evening bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Long-legged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dwarf little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale