It is hard to guess what a Jones’s roundleaf bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Jones’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros jonesi) on average weights 5 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Jones’s roundleaf bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Hipposideros). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Jones’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros jonesi) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is endemic to southern West Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, rocky areas, caves, and subterranean habitats (other than caves).
Animals of the same family as a Jones’s roundleaf bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Arcuate horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Smaller horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Rhinolophus sedulus with a weight of 8 grams
- Peninsular horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Halcyon horseshoe bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Wollaston’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Jones’s roundleaf bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hipposideros jonesi:
- Eastern forest bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Flute-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Ornate shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Dormer’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Black-winged little yellow bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Little big-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- White-winged serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Sooty mustached bat bringing 5 grams to the scale