It is hard to guess what a Gray sac-winged bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray sac-winged bat (Balantiopteryx plicata) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Gray sac-winged bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Balantiopteryx). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4 cm (0′ 2″). Normally, Gray sac-winged 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 gray sac-winged bat (Balantiopteryx plicata) is a species in the family Emballonuridae which comprises the 51 species of sac-winged bats. It is found in Mexico from Baja California Sur and Sonora to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and northern Colombia, at elevations up to 1,500 metres (4,900 ft).
Animals of the same family as a Gray sac-winged bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Taphozous philippinensis with a weight of 20 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- African sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Chestnut sac-winged bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Greater sac-winged bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Theobald’s tomb bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Egyptian tomb bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gray sac-winged bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Balantiopteryx plicata:
- Large forest bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Elgon shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Coelops frithi bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Chinese pipistrelle bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Yankari shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Salenski’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Benito roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Lesser dwarf shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Little big-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale