It is hard to guess what a Micronycteris brachyotis weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Micronycteris brachyotis (Micronycteris brachyotis) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Micronycteris brachyotis is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Micronycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.9 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Animals of the same family as a Micronycteris brachyotis
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Thomas’s nectar bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Gnome fruit-eating bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Hairy big-eyed bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Guianan spear-nosed bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Aztec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Gervais’s fruit-eating bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Greater round-eared bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Tent-making bat with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Micronycteris brachyotis
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micronycteris brachyotis:
- Brants’s climbing mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Cave myotis bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Toad mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- African sheath-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus sedulus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Yellow serotine bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Pilliga mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Peters’s mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Chestnut long-tongued bat bringing 8 grams to the scale