It is hard to guess what a Dark sheath-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dark sheath-tailed bat (Mosia nigrescens) on average weights 2 grams (0 lbs).
The Dark sheath-tailed bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Mosia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 90 cm (3′ 0″).
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 dark sheath-tailed bat (Mosia nigrescens) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is the only species in the genus Mosia.It is found in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Dark sheath-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Mauritian tomb bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Black-bearded tomb bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Lesser ghost bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Short-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Gray sac-winged bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dark sheath-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mosia nigrescens:
- Desert pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Nyctophilus geoffroyi bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Etruscan shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Eurasian least shrew bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Tiny pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Black myotis bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Desert pipistrelle bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Least woolly bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Himalayan whiskered bat bringing 2 grams to the scale
- Borneo roundleaf bat bringing 2 grams to the scale