It is hard to guess what a Malagasy slit-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Malagasy slit-faced bat (Nycteris madagascariensis) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Malagasy slit-faced bat is from the family Nycteridae (genus: Nycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Malagasy slit-faced bat (Nycteris madagascariensis) is a species of slit-faced bat in Madagascar. Very little is known about this species.
Animals of the same family as a Malagasy slit-faced bat
We found other animals of the Nycteridae family:
- Large-eared slit-faced bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Wood’s slit-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Hairy slit-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Javan slit-faced bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Egyptian slit-faced bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Gambian slit-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Dwarf slit-faced bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Bates’s slit-faced bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Large slit-faced bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Malayan slit-faced bat with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Malagasy slit-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nycteris madagascariensis:
- Montane white-toothed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Halcyon horseshoe bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Grey-bellied dunnart bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Spotted free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Gilbert’s dunnart bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Creeping vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Northern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Brown tent-making bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Lakeland Downs mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Malagasy slit-faced bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Malagasy slit-faced bat:
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sclater’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mongolian gerbil with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Marajó short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed mouse with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern marsupial mole with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- South African pouched mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)