It is hard to guess what a Little big-eyed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little big-eyed bat (Chiroderma trinitatum) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Little big-eyed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Chiroderma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.5 cm (1′ 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 little big-eyed bat (Chiroderma trinitatum) is a bat species from South and Central America.
Animals of the same family as a Little big-eyed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Brown fruit-eating bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Honduran white bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Brown flower bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Red fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Goldman’s nectar bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Great stripe-faced bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Fringe-lipped bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Ipanema bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Flat-faced fruit-eating bat with a weight of 47 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Little big-eyed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chiroderma trinitatum:
- Piebald shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Malayan slit-faced bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Intermediate horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Tacarcuna bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Glacier Bay water shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Telefomin roundleaf bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Rock pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Variegated butterfly bat bringing 11 grams to the scale