It is hard to guess what a Greater broad-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater broad-nosed bat (Platyrrhinus vittatus) on average weights 37 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Greater broad-nosed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Platyrrhinus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.1 cm (0′ 4″).
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 greater broad-nosed bat (Platyrrhinus vittatus) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Greater broad-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Large fruit-eating bat with a weight of 61 grams
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Fringed fruit-eating bat with a weight of 63 grams
- Godman’s long-tailed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Little big-eyed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Cuban flower bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Chestnut short-tailed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 49 grams
- Gray long-tongued bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater broad-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Platyrrhinus vittatus:
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Tonatia silvicola bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Dalton’s mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Tawny deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Blackish deer mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Perote mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater broad-nosed bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater broad-nosed bat:
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arctic shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater white-toothed shrew with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)