It is hard to guess what a Greater ghost bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater ghost bat (Diclidurus ingens) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Greater ghost bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Diclidurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7 cm (0′ 3″).
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 ghost bat (Diclidurus ingens) is a bat species found in northwestern Brazil, southeastern Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Greater ghost bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Proboscis bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with a weight of 31 grams
- Black-bearded tomb bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Greater dog-like bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Greater sac-winged bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Chestnut sac-winged bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater ghost bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Diclidurus ingens:
- Pacific shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Natal long-fingered bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Alston’s brown mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Variegated butterfly bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Greater long-fingered bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Gnome fruit-eating bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Myosorex varius bringing 11 grams to the scale
- White-bellied lesser house bat bringing 10 grams to the scale