It is hard to guess what a MacConnell’s bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult MacConnell’s bat (Mesophylla macconnelli) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The MacConnell’s bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Mesophylla). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.5 cm (0′ 8″).
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.
MacConnell’s bat, Mesophylla macconnelli, is a bat species from South and Central America. It is monotypic within the genus Mesophylla.
Animals of the same family as a MacConnell’s bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Little yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Tricolored big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Pygmy round-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Tonatia silvicola with a weight of 32 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat with a weight of 42 grams
- White-winged vampire bat with a weight of 36 grams
Animals with the same weight as a MacConnell’s bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mesophylla macconnelli:
- Geoffroy’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- São Tomé free-tailed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Grey long-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- San Cristobal shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s nectar bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mount Lyell shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Rendall’s serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Hairy slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale