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 (Glyphonycteris daviesi) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Davies’s big-eared bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Glyphonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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:
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a weight of 37 grams
- Gray short-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Gnome fruit-eating bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Southern long-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Goldman’s nectar bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Brown tent-making bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Hairy big-eared bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Tricolored big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Broad-toothed tailless bat with a weight of 15 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 Glyphonycteris daviesi:
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Wood sprite gracile opossum bringing 18 grams to the scale
- New Holland mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Javan slit-faced bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Brazilian big-eyed bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Chestnut dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest blossom bat bringing 20 grams to the scale