It is hard to guess what a Greater long-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis) on average weights 24 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Greater long-nosed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Leptonycteris). It is usually born with about 7 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.55 meter (8′ 5″). On average, Greater long-nosed 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 long-nosed bat or Mexican long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States. It chiefly consumes pollen and nectar, particularly from Agave plants and cacti. Its habitat includes desert scrub and open woodlands. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Greater long-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Gray long-tongued bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Gervais’s fruit-eating bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a weight of 37 grams
- Toltec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Brown tent-making bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Hairy big-eyed bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Chestnut short-tailed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Micronycteris brachyotis with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater long-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Leptonycteris nivalis:
- Santa Cruz mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Wimmer’s shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Akodon albiventer bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Heart-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Hairy big-eyed bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater long-nosed bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Greater long-nosed bat: