It is hard to guess what a Highland yellow-shouldered bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Highland yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira ludovici) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Highland yellow-shouldered bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Sturnira). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.5 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Highland yellow-shouldered bats can have babies 2 times a year.
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 highland yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira ludovici) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Highland yellow-shouldered bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Tonatia carrikeri with a weight of 22 grams
- Northern little yellow-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Eldorado broad-nosed bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Fischer’s little fruit bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Tent-making bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Gray short-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Highland yellow-shouldered bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sturnira ludovici:
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Savi’s pine vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Long-winged tomb bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Asian particolored bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Gilbert’s dunnart bringing 19 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Little desert pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Notiomys bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale