It is hard to guess what a Golden bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden bat (Mimon bennettii) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Golden bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Mimon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.6 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.
The golden bat (Mimon bennettii) is a bat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Golden bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- California leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Handley’s tailless bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Velvety fruit-eating bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Large fruit-eating bat with a weight of 61 grams
- Jamaican flower bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Broad-toothed tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Great stripe-faced bat with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Golden bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mimon bennettii:
- Big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Bates’s slit-faced bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris brachyotis bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Cape horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Lovat’s climbing mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Spotted-winged fruit bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Glacier Bay water shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale