It is hard to guess what a Ipanema bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ipanema bat (Pygoderma bilabiatum) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Ipanema bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Pygoderma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 64.7 cm (2′ 2″). Normally, Ipanema bats can have babies 1 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 Ipanema bat (Pygoderma bilabiatum), is a bat species of order Chiroptera and family Phyllostomidae. It is found in South America, specifically in northern Argentina, Bolivia, southeastern Brazil and Paraguay. It is monotypic within its genus.
Animals of the same family as a Ipanema bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Honduran white bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Brazilian big-eyed bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Micronycteris nicefori with a weight of 8 grams
- Greater spear-nosed bat with a weight of 91 grams
- Little big-eyed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Toltec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Jamaican flower bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Tonatia carrikeri with a weight of 22 grams
- Insular single leaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ipanema bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pygoderma bilabiatum:
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Schultz’s round-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Tickell’s bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Small-toothed harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Brown flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed dunnart bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Peruvian vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Asian barbastelle bringing 15 grams to the scale