It is hard to guess what a Northern ghost bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Northern ghost bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Diclidurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Northern ghost bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) is a bat species from South America, Trinidad, and Central America. It is a relatively rare, completely white, insectivorous bat, with an unusual sac at the base of its tail.
Animals of the same family as a Northern ghost bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Lesser sac-winged bat with a weight of 1 grams
- Lesser ghost bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Egyptian tomb bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Greater ghost bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with a weight of 31 grams
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern ghost bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Diclidurus albus:
- Heller’s broad-nosed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Bonda mastiff bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys altissimus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Moonshine shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Chestnut short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- African pygmy squirrel bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Spotted-winged fruit bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Luzon fruit bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northern ghost bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern ghost bat:
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Iberian shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Emilia’s gracile opossum with a size of 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern ghost bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Northern ghost bat: