It is hard to guess what a Davies’s big-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Davies’s big-eared bat (Micronycteris daviesi) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Davies’s big-eared bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Micronycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.9 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Davies’s big-eared bat or the graybeard bat (Glyphonycteris daviesi) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is named after James (Jim) Davies who discovered it whilst on expedition in French Guiana. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela. Jim Davies is President of Friends of Nant Llwynog Park (Pitwoods Parc) in Bedlinog, Mid Glamorgan.
Animals of the same family as a Davies’s big-eared bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Hairy fruit-eating bat with a weight of 40 grams
- Great stripe-faced bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Toltec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 49 grams
- Big-eared woolly bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Visored bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Little yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Handley’s tailless bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Striped hairy-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Davies’s big-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micronycteris daviesi:
- Trefoil horseshoe bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- San Diego pocket mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- African smoky mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- White-collared fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Spotted free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Insular single leaf bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Long-tongued nectar bat bringing 16 grams to the scale