It is hard to guess what a Lesser long-tongued bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser long-tongued bat (Choeroniscus minor) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 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:
- Gnome fruit-eating bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Fringed fruit-eating bat with a weight of 63 grams
- Golden bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Striped hairy-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Eldorado broad-nosed bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Dark fruit-eating bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Little big-eyed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Tonatia carrikeri with a weight of 22 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with a weight of 15 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 minor:
- Siberian large-toothed shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Myotis bocagei bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Small mouse-tailed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Fulvus roundleaf bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Silvered bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Western barbastelle bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Apennine shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Coelops frithi bringing 7 grams to the scale