It is hard to guess what a Hairless bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairless bat (Cheiromeles torquatus) on average weights 169 grams (0.37 lbs).
The Hairless bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Cheiromeles). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.5 cm (0′ 9″).
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 hairless bat (Cheiromeles torquatus), also called the naked bulldog bat and greater naked bat, is a species of bat in the family Molossidae. The generic name Cheiromeles comes from the Greek word cheir (Greek for hand) and the species name is derived from the Latin torques (Latin for collar).This bat is a hawking insectivore, using echolocation to find insects on the wing.The hairless bat is mostly hairless, but does have short, bristly hairs around its neck, on its front toes, and around the throat sac, along with fine hairs on the head and tail membrane.
Animals of the same family as a Hairless bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Angolan free-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Russet free-tailed bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Para dog-faced bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Micronomus with a weight of 8 grams
- Underwood’s bonneted bat with a weight of 58 grams
- European free-tailed bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Dwarf free-tailed bat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Hairless bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cheiromeles torquatus:
- Mzab gundi bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Siberian flying squirrel bringing 143 grams to the scale
- Mountain treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Brazilian squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Little golden-mantled flying fox bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 167 grams to the scale
- Talas tuco-tuco bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Red-crested tree-rat bringing 145 grams to the scale
- Unexpected cotton rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 164 grams to the scale