It is hard to guess what a Little white-shouldered bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little white-shouldered bat (Ametrida centurio) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Little white-shouldered bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Ametrida). 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 little white-shouldered bat, (Ametrida centurio), is a species of bat from South and Central America. It is the only species within its genus, the name of which translates as “reaper” or “destroyer”.
Animals of the same family as a Little white-shouldered bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Dark fruit-eating bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Micronycteris sylvestris with a weight of 8 grams
- Gervais’s fruit-eating bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Jamaican flower bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Wrinkle-faced bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Tent-making bat with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Little white-shouldered bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ametrida centurio:
- Peninsular horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Silvered bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Taiva shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Small bent-winged bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Plains harvest mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Little native mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bicolored shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Long-legged myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Fawn leaf-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale