It is hard to guess what a Frosted sac-winged bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Frosted sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx canescens) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Frosted sac-winged bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Saccopteryx). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Frosted sac-winged bats have 1 babies per litter.
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 frosted sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx canescens) is a bat species of the family Emballonuridae from South America. It is found in northern Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela and possibly Bolivia.
Animals of the same family as a Frosted sac-winged bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Northern ghost bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Greater ghost bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Isabelle’s ghost bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Shaggy bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Frosted sac-winged bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saccopteryx canescens:
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Johnston’s forest shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Preble’s shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Canyon bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Spurrell’s woolly bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thumbless bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Frosted sac-winged bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Frosted sac-winged bat: