It is hard to guess what a Gray short-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray short-tailed bat (Carollia subrufa) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Gray short-tailed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Carollia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Gray short-tailed bats can have babies 2 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 short-tailed bat, or Hahn’s short-tailed bat (Carollia subrufa), is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae native to Mexico and Central America.
Animals of the same family as a Gray short-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat with a weight of 42 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Tonatia carrikeri with a weight of 22 grams
- Leach’s single leaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Western long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Fischer’s little fruit bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 18 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gray short-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Carollia subrufa:
- Montane shrew tenrec bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Egyptian free-tailed bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Asian barbastelle bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Grey-bellied dunnart bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Chiriqui brown mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Lesser large-headed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Greater ghost bat bringing 12 grams to the scale