It is hard to guess what a Greater dog-like bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater dog-like bat (Peropteryx kappleri) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Greater dog-like bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Peropteryx). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Greater dog-like bats can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 dog-like bat (Peropteryx kappleri) is a bat species from Central America and South America. It is found from southern Mexico through Brazil and Peru.
Animals of the same family as a Greater dog-like bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Common sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Mauritian tomb bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Northern ghost bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Pel’s pouched bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Lesser dog-like bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater dog-like bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peropteryx kappleri:
- Hoary wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Altai birch mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Smaller horseshoe bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Little broad-nosed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Greater sac-winged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Bicolored shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Crowned shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Davy’s naked-backed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater dog-like bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Greater dog-like bat: