It is hard to guess what a Little yellow-shouldered bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira lilium) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Little yellow-shouldered bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Sturnira). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.5 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Little yellow-shouldered bats can have babies 2 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 little yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira lilium) is a bat species from South and Central America. This species is a frugivore and an effective seed disperser. It roosts alone in tree cavities, on branches, vines, and under palm leaves, usually keeping to the same roosts day to day. There is evidence to suggest hypothermia is a thermoregulatory strategy to help adjust metabolic levels. In terms of mating, ambient temperature has been noted as a greater influence as compared to food availability. Its wing shape can also be affected by pregnancy in order to make flight more efficient.
Animals of the same family as a Little yellow-shouldered bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Thomas’s nectar bat with a weight of 7 grams
- MacConnell’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Golden bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Brown tent-making bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Fischer’s little fruit bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Fringed fruit-eating bat with a weight of 63 grams
- Leach’s single leaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Little yellow-shouldered bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sturnira lilium:
- Algerian mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Woodland dormouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Eva’s desert mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-faced bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Sinaloan mastiff bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-eared bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 18 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Little yellow-shouldered bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Little yellow-shouldered bat:
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a size of 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saharan shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fulvous harvest mouse with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)