It is hard to guess what a Mexican long-tongued bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mexican long-tongued bat (Choeronycteris mexicana) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Mexican long-tongued bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Choeronycteris). It is usually born with about 5 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.6 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Mexican long-tongued bats have 1 babies per litter.
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 long-tongued bat (Choeronycteris mexicana) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is monotypic within the genus Choeronycteris. The species is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Mexican long-tongued bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Velvety fruit-eating bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Tricolored big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Chestnut long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat with a weight of 42 grams
- Silver fruit-eating bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Insular single leaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Micronycteris sylvestris with a weight of 8 grams
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican long-tongued bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Choeronycteris mexicana:
- Schultz’s round-eared bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Oldfield mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Peruvian vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Slender-tailed dunnart bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Ultimate shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Melissa’s yellow-eared bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Telefomin roundleaf bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Peromyscus maniculatus bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mexican long-tongued bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mexican long-tongued bat:
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arctic shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Vagrant shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern pygmy mouse with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hoary bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jamaican fruit bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Saharan shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Velvety free-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mexican long-tongued bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mexican long-tongued bat: