It is hard to guess what a Chestnut sac-winged bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chestnut sac-winged bat (Cormura brevirostris) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Chestnut sac-winged bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Cormura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.01 meter (6′ 8″).
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 sac-winged bat, or Wagner’s sac-winged bat (Cormura brevirostris) is a species of sac-winged bat native to South and Central America. It is the only species within its genus.
Animals of the same family as a Chestnut sac-winged bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Lesser ghost bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Gray sac-winged bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Shaggy bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Proboscis bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Trinidad dog-like bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Theobald’s tomb bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Egyptian tomb bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Frosted sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chestnut sac-winged bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cormura brevirostris:
- Reddish-gray musk shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Shamel’s horseshoe bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Little broad-nosed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Tonatia brasiliense bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Silvered bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- American shrew mole bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Gray climbing mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Bicolored shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale