It is hard to guess what a Leach’s single leaf bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Leach’s single leaf bat (Monophyllus redmani) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Leach’s single leaf bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Monophyllus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.1 meter (16′ 9″).
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.
Leach’s single leaf bat (Monophyllus redmani), also known as Greater Antillean long-tongued bat, is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in southern Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico. It forms large colonies, with up to a few hundred thousand individuals, and feeds on a relatively wide variety of food items including pollen, nectar, fruit and insects.
Animals of the same family as a Leach’s single leaf bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Gnome fruit-eating bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Fringe-lipped bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Tonatia silvicola with a weight of 32 grams
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat with a weight of 42 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Red fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Heller’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Leach’s single leaf bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Monophyllus redmani:
- Bicolored roundleaf bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Baird’s shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Beatrix’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Wongai ningaui bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Ozimops planiceps bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Spurrell’s free-tailed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Long-legged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Shamel’s horseshoe bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Silvered bat bringing 9 grams to the scale