It is hard to guess what a Lesser sac-winged bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser sac-winged bat (Saccopteryx leptura) on average weights 1 grams (0 lbs).
The Lesser sac-winged bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Saccopteryx). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). Normally, Lesser sac-winged bats can have babies 1 times a year.
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 sac-winged bat or lesser white-lined bat (Saccopteryx leptura) is a bat species of the family Emballonuridae from South and Middle America.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser sac-winged bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Egyptian tomb bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Mauritian tomb bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Proboscis bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Greater sac-winged bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Shaggy bat with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser sac-winged bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saccopteryx leptura:
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat bringing 1 grams to the scale