It is hard to guess what a Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat (Coelops robinsoni) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Coelops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.1 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 Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat (Coelops robinsoni) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is a very small bat which has long and soft fur. The fur coloration is brown to blackish on the dorsal surface and ashy on the ventral surface. It can be distinguished from the other roundleaf bats by its small size and the absence of the tail. It is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN (Heaney, 2008)
Animals of the same family as a Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Aba roundleaf bat with 1 babies per litter
- Borneo roundleaf bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Dent’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 46 grams
- Smaller horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Northern leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Great roundleaf bat with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Coelops robinsoni:
- Salenski’s shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Allen’s spotted bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Little brown bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mexican big-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Large forest bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Brown pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Lesser white-toothed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Ozimops loriae bringing 7 grams to the scale