It is hard to guess what a Greater false vampire bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra) on average weights 39 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Greater false vampire bat is from the family Megadermatidae (genus: Megaderma). It is usually born with about 10 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.3 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Greater false vampire bats can have babies 1 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 false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra) is a species of bat in the family Megadermatidae, the false vampire bats. It is native to Asia. It is also known as the Indian false vampire bat or greater false-vampire
Animals of the same family as a Greater false vampire bat
We found other animals of the Megadermatidae family:
- Yellow-winged bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Lesser false vampire bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Heart-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Ghost bat with a weight of 124 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater false vampire bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Megaderma lyra:
- Grant’s rock mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Large Japanese field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Theobald’s tomb bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Somali elephant shrew bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Luzon montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Black-eared mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Dark bolo mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater false vampire bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater false vampire bat:
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pacific shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ghost-faced bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern three-striped opossum with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common blossom bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser bulldog bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale shrew tenrec with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater false vampire bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Greater false vampire bat:
- Red forest duiker
- Greater spot-nosed monkey
- Microcebus coquereli
- Shrew-faced squirrel
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat
- Common brown lemur
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse
- Amazonian manatee
- Blackbuck
- Giant armadillo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Greater false vampire bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Greater false vampire bat:
- Ground cuscus with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Speke’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Meerkat with an average maximal age of 12.5 years
- Coypu with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Llama with an average maximal age of 14.17 years
- Striped polecat with an average maximal age of 13.33 years
- Iberian ibex with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Nyala with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Arabian tahr with an average maximal age of 14 years