It is hard to guess what a Fringe-lipped bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) on average weights 36 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Fringe-lipped bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Trachops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30 cm (1′ 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 fringe-lipped bat (Trachops cirrhosus) is a leaf-nosed bat from southern Mexico to Bolivia and southern Brazil. It has three subspecies and no known fossils. It is the only species within its genus.
Animals of the same family as a Fringe-lipped bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Visored bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Greater long-nosed bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Southern long-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Common vampire bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Pale-faced bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Toltec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Melissa’s yellow-eared bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Dark fruit-eating bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with a weight of 45 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fringe-lipped bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Trachops cirrhosus:
- Black-eared mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- El Dorado grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Tyler’s mouse opossum bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Nayarit mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Defua rat bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Winkelmann’s mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Naked mole-rat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Cochabamba grass mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Jalapan pine vole bringing 40 grams to the scale