It is hard to guess what a Mehely’s horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mehely’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus mehelyi) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Mehely’s horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2 cm (0′ 1″).
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.
Mehely’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus mehelyi) is a species of insectivorous bat in the family Rhinolophidae found in Southern Europe and parts of the Middle East. It is distributed in a narrow band around the Mediterranean Sea from North-Western Africa across Portugal, Spain, the Balearics, southern France, Sardinia, Sicily and the Balkan Peninsula to Asia Minor.
Animals of the same family as a Mehely’s horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Pearson’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Halcyon horseshoe bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat with a weight of 40 grams
- Percival’s trident bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Woolly horseshoe bat with a weight of 34 grams
- Rufous horseshoe bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Bicolored roundleaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mehely’s horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus mehelyi:
- True’s shrew mole bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Spotted free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus hilli bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Golden bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Toltec fruit-eating bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Rufous horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Pond bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Chiriqui brown mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale