It is hard to guess what a Lesser long-tongued bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser long-tongued bat (Choeroniscus intermedius) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Lesser long-tongued bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Choeroniscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10 cm (0′ 4″).
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 long-tongued bat (Choeroniscus minor), also called the lesser long-tailed bat, is a bat species from South America.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser long-tongued bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Toltec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- White-bellied big-eared bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Chestnut long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser long-tongued bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Choeroniscus intermedius:
- Large-eared tenrec bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Abo bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Chinese pipistrelle bringing 5 grams to the scale
- White-winged serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Tricolored bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- White-winged serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Bicolored musk shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale