It is hard to guess what a Lesser ghost bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser ghost bat (Diclidurus scutatus) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Lesser ghost bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Diclidurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7 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.
The lesser ghost bat (Diclidurus scutatus) is a bat species found in South America.It is one of six bat species worldwide to have white fur.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser ghost bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Gray sac-winged bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Greater dog-like bat with a weight of 9 grams
- African sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Black-bearded tomb bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Shaggy bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Theobald’s tomb bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser ghost bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Diclidurus scutatus:
- Piebald shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Mediterranean water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Eptesicus demissus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Golden bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Mehely’s horseshoe bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Taiga shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Bini free-tailed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Western pygmy possum bringing 15 grams to the scale