It is hard to guess what a Greenhall’s dog-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greenhall’s dog-faced bat (Cynomops greenhalli) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Greenhall’s dog-faced bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Cynomops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 64.7 cm (2′ 2″).
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.
Greenhall’s dog-faced bat (Cynomops greenhalli) is a South American bat species of the family Molossidae. It is found in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, the Guianas, northeastern Brazil and Trinidad.It is an insect-eating bat, 40–97 mm in length. Yellowish brown to black above, grey underneath, it is broad-faced with widely separated eyes. Its ears are short and rounded; the antitragus is square; its lips are not wrinkled; it has a broad snout. Mostly it is found at low elevations. Colonies of 50–77 roost in hollow branches of large trees. Males and females stay together throughout the year. The species is named after Arthur Greenhall, a scientist who was in charge of the rabies program at the Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
Animals of the same family as a Greenhall’s dog-faced bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Pocketed free-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Dwarf dog-faced bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Big bonneted bat with a weight of 83 grams
- Big crested mastiff bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Brown mastiff bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Ozimops loriae with a weight of 7 grams
- Mato Grosso dog-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
- New Guinea free-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Wagner’s bonneted bat with a weight of 36 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greenhall’s dog-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cynomops greenhalli:
- Upemba shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Bates’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Velvety fruit-eating bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Dwarf bonneted bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Handley’s tailless bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Chestnut short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lesser noctule bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Little wood mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale