It is hard to guess what a Goldman’s nectar bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Goldman’s nectar bat (Lonchophylla mordax) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Goldman’s nectar bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Lonchophylla). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.28 meter (7′ 6″).
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.
Goldman’s nectar bat (Lonchophylla mordax) is a bat species from South and Central America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama.
Animals of the same family as a Goldman’s nectar bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Big-eared woolly bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Lesser spear-nosed bat with a weight of 41 grams
- Pygmy round-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Striped hairy-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Tricolored big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Fringe-lipped bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Handley’s tailless bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Brown fruit-eating bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Silky short-tailed bat with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Goldman’s nectar bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lonchophylla mordax:
- Greenish yellow bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Lakeland Downs mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Andean vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Southern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Tufted pygmy squirrel bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Neacomys spinosus bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-eared bat bringing 23 grams to the scale