It is hard to guess what a Miller’s long-tongued bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Miller’s long-tongued bat (Glossophaga longirostris) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Miller’s long-tongued bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Glossophaga). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.69 meter (18′ 9″). Normally, Miller’s long-tongued bats can have babies 2 times a year.
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.
Miller’s long-tongued bat (Glossophaga longirostris) is a bat species from northern South America and the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. It is found in northern Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, the Netherlands Antilles and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Miller’s long-tongued bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Micronycteris nicefori with a weight of 8 grams
- Tree bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Honduran white bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Striped hairy-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Godman’s long-tailed bat with a weight of 7 grams
- MacConnell’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Tilda’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Miller’s long-tongued bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Glossophaga longirostris:
- True’s shrew mole bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Aztec mastiff bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Great bent-winged bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Taiva shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Gould’s wattled bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Surat serotine bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lovat’s climbing mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale