It is hard to guess what a Little Japanese horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little Japanese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus cornutus) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Little Japanese horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). Usually, Little Japanese horseshoe bats have 1 babies per litter.
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 Japanese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus cornutus) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is found in Japan and possibly China. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. It has not yet been assessed for the IUCN Red List.
Animals of the same family as a Little Japanese horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Large-eared horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Bushveld horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Percival’s trident bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Great roundleaf bat with a weight of 50 grams
- Lander’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Pearson’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Little Japanese horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus cornutus:
- Baird’s shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bicolored roundleaf bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris nicefori bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Daubenton’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Fringed myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Stoliczka’s trident bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- São Tomé free-tailed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Tasmanian pygmy possum bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Northern birch mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Little Japanese horseshoe bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Little Japanese horseshoe bat: