It is hard to guess what a Lesser horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Lesser horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 21 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3.8 cm (0′ 2″). On average, Lesser horseshoe bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros) is a type of small European insectivorous bat, related to its larger cousin, the greater horseshoe bat. As with all horseshoe bats, the species gets its name from its distinctive horseshoe-shaped noseleaf.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Lesser brown horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Bourret’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Trefoil horseshoe bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 46 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus hipposideros:
- Temminck’s trident bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Indian pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Painted bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Brown tube-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Eurasian pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Flute-nosed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Crawford’s gray shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Java pipistrelle bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Yellow-lipped bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Lesser bamboo bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lesser horseshoe bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lesser horseshoe bat:
- Common pipistrelle with a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Wagner’s mustached bat with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican free-tailed bat with a size of 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Cursor grass mouse with a size of 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine with a size of 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Proboscis bat with a size of 4.2 cm (0′ 2″)
- Woermann’s bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser horseshoe bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lesser horseshoe bat:
- Siamang
- Black-eared flying fox
- Yellow-backed duiker
- Common wombat
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Black-tailed hutia
- Ursine colobus
- Cape horseshoe bat
- Cyclops roundleaf bat
- Short-snouted elephant shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Lesser horseshoe bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Lesser horseshoe bat:
- Venezuelan red howler with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Mountain gazelle with an average maximal age of 18.25 years
- Roe deer with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Klipspringer with an average maximal age of 17.75 years
- Patas monkey with an average maximal age of 23.83 years
- Snow leopard with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Alpine ibex with an average maximal age of 22.25 years
- Finless porpoise with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Kit fox with an average maximal age of 20 years
- European pine marten with an average maximal age of 17 years