It is hard to guess what a Great roundleaf bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Great roundleaf bat (Hipposideros armiger) on average weights 50 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Great roundleaf bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Hipposideros). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.55 meter (5′ 2″).
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 great roundleaf bat, also known as the great Himalayan leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros armiger) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae found in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China. It gives birth to two young a year. It has been assessed as least concern by the IUCN.
Animals of the same family as a Great roundleaf bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Large Asian roundleaf bat with a weight of 31 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 46 grams
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Woolly horseshoe bat with a weight of 34 grams
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Eloquent horseshoe bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Lesser brown horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Rhinolophus sedulus with a weight of 8 grams
- Pearson’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Ashy roundleaf bat with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Great roundleaf bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hipposideros armiger:
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys yunganus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Eastern tube-nosed bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Pseudoryzomys bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Meadow vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Mozambique thicket rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Lodgepole chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Hairy fruit-eating bat bringing 40 grams to the scale