It is hard to guess what a Micronycteris sylvestris weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Micronycteris sylvestris (Micronycteris sylvestris) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Micronycteris sylvestris 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 sylvestris
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a weight of 37 grams
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Dark long-tongued bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Orange nectar bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Tent-making bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Tailed tailless bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Greater long-nosed bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Broad-toothed tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Micronycteris sylvestris
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micronycteris sylvestris:
- Reddish-gray musk shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Hoary wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Silky pocket mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Northern birch mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mexican big-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Eurasian harvest mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale