It is hard to guess what a Ghost-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ghost-faced bat (Mormoops megalophylla) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Ghost-faced bat is from the family Mormoopidae (genus: Mormoops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.6 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Ghost-faced bats can have babies 1 times a year.
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-faced bat (Mormoops megalophylla) is a bat in the genus Mormoops. It occurs in Belize, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and Texas in the United States. Mormoops megalophylla is one of only two extant species within its genus, the other being the much smaller Mormoops blainvillii. These mammals are nocturnal and hunt using echolocation.It gets its name from the unusual appearance of its face, which is due to the flaps of skin that hang from it, its poorly developed nose, and “large, round ears that join across their forehead”.
Animals of the same family as a Ghost-faced bat
We found other animals of the Mormoopidae family:
- Antillean ghost-faced bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Antillean ghost-faced bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Wagner’s mustached bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Big naked-backed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Parnell’s mustached bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Davy’s naked-backed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Sooty mustached bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ghost-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mormoops megalophylla:
- Himalayan shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew tenrec bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Smoky white-toothed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Bates’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Rock pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Greater long-tailed hamster bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Rufous mouse opossum bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Woermann’s bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ghost-faced bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ghost-faced bat:
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sinaloan pocket mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Preble’s shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hoary bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Honey possum with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)