It is hard to guess what a Chestnut short-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chestnut short-tailed bat (Carollia castanea) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Chestnut short-tailed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Carollia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 74.1 cm (2′ 6″).
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 short-tailed bat (Carollia castanea) is a bat species from South and Central America. The species is often confused with the Benkeith’s short-tailed bat. It is a mainly frugivorous species that has been known to consume insects (its favorite food being piperaceae). To determine which pipers to forage on, it focuses on oder and then after proceeds to echolocate to determine position. It hunts between nightfall and midnight (females during the first half, males during the whole). Habitats include hollow trees, caves, cracks, abandoned mines, sewers, and house roofs. It does not decrease activity during full moons, only instances of turbulent weather like heavy rain. In an agricultural setting it has a higher resistance to habitat fragmentation compared to similar bat species.
Animals of the same family as a Chestnut short-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Pale spear-nosed bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Aztec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Honduran white bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Tonatia brasiliense with a weight of 9 grams
- Hairy fruit-eating bat with a weight of 40 grams
- Insular single leaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Cuban flower bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a weight of 37 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chestnut short-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Carollia castanea:
- Tomes’s sword-nosed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Southern birch mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Insular single leaf bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Slender harvest mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Lesser noctule bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Glacier Bay water shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Aztec mastiff bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale