It is hard to guess what a Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hildebrandti) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). On average, Hildebrandt’s horseshoe 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.
Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hildebrandtii) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae found in Africa. Its natural habitats are dry savanna, moist savanna, caves, and subterranean habitats (other than caves).
Animals of the same family as a Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Ashy roundleaf bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Thailand roundleaf bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Rhinolophus simplex with a weight of 6 grams
- Dent’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Aba roundleaf bat with 1 babies per litter
- Telefomin roundleaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Jones’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus hildebrandti:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Dickey’s deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Alpine pine vole bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Great Basin pocket mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Myotis vivesi bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat: