It is hard to guess what a Large slit-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Large slit-faced bat (Nycteris grandis) on average weights 29 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Large slit-faced bat is from the family Nycteridae (genus: Nycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Large slit-faced bats have 1 babies per litter.
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 large slit-faced bat, Nycteris grandis, is a species of slit-faced bat with a broad distribution in forest and savanna habitats in West, Central, and East Africa. N. marica (Kershaw, 1923), is the available name for the southern savanna species if it is recognized as distinct from this species.
Animals of the same family as a Large slit-faced bat
We found other animals of the Nycteridae family:
- Large-eared slit-faced bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Dwarf slit-faced bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Gambian slit-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Hairy slit-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Malayan slit-faced bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Javan slit-faced bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Bates’s slit-faced bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Egyptian slit-faced bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Malagasy slit-faced bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Wood’s slit-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Large slit-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nycteris grandis:
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Northern caenolestid bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Winter white dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Large-eared free-tailed bat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- White-lined broad-nosed bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Spinifex hopping mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Large slit-faced bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Large slit-faced bat:
- Townsend’s mole with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Plains pocket mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Canyon mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hoary bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Large slit-faced bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Large slit-faced bat: