It is hard to guess what a Hill’s sheath-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hill’s sheath-tailed bat (Taphozous hilli) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Hill’s sheath-tailed bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Taphozous). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Hill’s sheath-tailed bat (Taphozous hilli) is a bat of the family Emballonuridae. They are found in the deserts of central Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Hill’s sheath-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Chestnut sac-winged bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Theobald’s tomb bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Mauritian tomb bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Short-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Long-winged tomb bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Lesser ghost bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Greater sac-winged bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Greater ghost bat with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hill’s sheath-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Taphozous hilli:
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Sandstone false antechinus bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Steppe lemming bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest blossom bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Tailless fruit bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Volcano harvest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Railer bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Taiwan field mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Harlequin bat bringing 22 grams to the scale