It is hard to guess what a Mexican big-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mexican big-eared bat (Plecotus mexicanus) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Mexican big-eared bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Plecotus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.1 cm (0′ 2″).
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 Mexican big-eared bat (Corynorhinus mexicanus) is a species of vesper bat endemic to Mexico. They are nocturnal and insectivorous. Their very large ears are located across their foreheads, and when captured, the bats are observed to curl their ears in a protective manner. The adults are usually brown colored, while the juveniles are usually a smokey brown color. They have small noses.
Animals of the same family as a Mexican big-eared bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Eastern small-footed myotis with a weight of 5 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Lesser hairy-winged bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Golden-tipped bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Tiny yellow bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle with a weight of 6 grams
- Little yellow bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Szechwan myotis with a weight of 11 grams
- Botswanan long-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Elegant myotis with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican big-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Plecotus mexicanus:
- Emilia’s gracile opossum bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Rufous mouse-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Chocolate wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Peters’s musk shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Coelops frithi bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Elgon shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Dwarf slit-faced bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Big-eared horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Southeastern myotis bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Spurrell’s free-tailed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale