It is hard to guess what a Hildegarde’s tomb bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hildegarde’s tomb bat (Taphozous hildegardeae) on average weights 29 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Hildegarde’s tomb bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Taphozous). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.2 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Hildegarde’s tomb 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.
Hildegarde’s tomb bat (Taphozous hildegardeae) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae.It is found near the coast in Kenya and Tanzania where it feeds in tropical dry forests and roosts in caves. It is a diurnal species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being “vulnerable”. The specific name hildegardeae was given in honour of anthropologist Hildegarde Beatrice Hinde.
Animals of the same family as a Hildegarde’s tomb bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Long-winged tomb bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Pel’s pouched bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Black-bearded tomb bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Shaggy bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Isabelle’s ghost bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Frosted sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Lesser ghost bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 22 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hildegarde’s tomb bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Taphozous hildegardeae:
- Molina’s grass mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Long-eared flying mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Nut-colored yellow bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Blanford’s fruit bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix lanosus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Pleasant bolo mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Eastern pygmy possum bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Southern bog lemming bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus bringing 27 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Hildegarde’s tomb bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Hildegarde’s tomb bat: