It is hard to guess what a Greater round-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater round-eared bat (Tonatia bidens) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Greater round-eared bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Tonatia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30 cm (1′ 0″).
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 round-eared bat (Tonatia bidens) is a bat species from South America. It is found in northeastern and southern Brazil, northern Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. The species feeds on fruit as well as hunting small birds. Once caught, birds are taken to a shelter and consumed.
Animals of the same family as a Greater round-eared bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Thomas’s nectar bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Lesser spear-nosed bat with a weight of 41 grams
- Fringe-lipped bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a weight of 37 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Handley’s tailless bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Gray short-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater round-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tonatia bidens:
- Brazilian gracile opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Monito del monte bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Mauritian tomb bat bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Intelligent grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Incan caenolestid bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Greater red musk shrew bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Greater mouse-eared bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Western jumping mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Ash-grey mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Japanese grass vole bringing 29 grams to the scale