It is hard to guess what a Noack’s roundleaf bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Noack’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros ruber) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Noack’s roundleaf bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Hipposideros). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Noack’s roundleaf 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.
Noack’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros ruber) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found throughout tropical Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, caves, and subterranean habitats (other than caves).
Animals of the same family as a Noack’s roundleaf bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Least horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Intermediate roundleaf bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Borneo roundleaf bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Telefomin roundleaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Arcuate horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Rhinolophus simplex with a weight of 6 grams
- Trefoil horseshoe bat with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Noack’s roundleaf bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hipposideros ruber:
- Eastern harvest mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dark kangaroo mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Lovat’s climbing mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Tonatia brasiliense bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Hinde’s lesser house bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Dollman’s tree mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Little white-shouldered bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Tropical big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Piebald shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Blackish small-eared shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Noack’s roundleaf bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Noack’s roundleaf bat: