It is hard to guess what a Ghost bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ghost bat (Macroderma gigas) on average weights 124 grams (0.27 lbs).
The Ghost bat is from the family Megadermatidae (genus: Macroderma). It is usually born with about 22 grams (0.05 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Ghost bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 ghost bat (Macroderma gigas) is a flying mammal found in northern Australia. The species is the only Australian bat that preys on large vertebrates – birds, reptiles and other mammals – which they detect using acute sight and hearing, combined with echolocation, while waiting in ambush at a perch. The wing membrane and bare skin is pale in colour, their fur is light or dark grey over the back and paler at the front. The species has a prominent and simple nose-leaf, their large ears are elongated and joined at lower half, and the eyes are also large and dark in colour.The first description of the species was published in 1880, its recorded range has significantly contracted since that time.
Animals of the same family as a Ghost bat
We found other animals of the Megadermatidae family:
- Heart-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Lesser false vampire bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Greater false vampire bat with a weight of 39 grams
- Yellow-winged bat with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ghost bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macroderma gigas:
- Texas kangaroo rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Zanzibar bushbaby bringing 147 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Western dwarf squirrel bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Giant kangaroo rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed opossum bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Northern flying squirrel bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Alston’s mouse opossum bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Crest-tailed mulgara bringing 100 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ghost bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ghost bat:
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sandstone false antechinus with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-collared chipmunk with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Central rock rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiruromys lamia with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Ghost bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Ghost bat: