It is hard to guess what a Northern little yellow-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern little yellow-eared bat (Vampyressa thyone) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Northern little yellow-eared bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Vampyressa). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 cm (0′ 8″).
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 little yellow-eared bat (Vampyressa thyone) is a bat species from South and Central America, where it is found from southern Mexico to Bolivia, the Guianas and western Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Northern little yellow-eared bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 49 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Micronycteris sylvestris with a weight of 8 grams
- Tailed tailless bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Ipanema bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern little yellow-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Vampyressa thyone:
- Leach’s single leaf bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Egyptian pygmy shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Large forest bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Brown pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Silky pocket mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Little big-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Wood’s slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Bobrinski’s serotine bringing 7 grams to the scale