It is hard to guess what a Ozimops loriae weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ozimops loriae (Mormopterus loriae) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Ozimops loriae is from the family Molossidae (genus: Mormopterus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Ozimops loriae is a species of bat found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.The common names include Loria’s mastiff bat and little northern free-tailed bat. The species was formerly described as Mormopterus loriae, and assigned to an Australian centred taxon Ozimops in 2014.
Animals of the same family as a Ozimops loriae
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Mexican free-tailed bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Ozimops planiceps with a weight of 9 grams
- Peale’s free-tailed bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Wroughton’s free-tailed bat with 1 babies per litter
- Para dog-faced bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Cinnamon dog-faced bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Big crested mastiff bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Spurrell’s free-tailed bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ozimops loriae
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mormopterus loriae:
- Western barbastelle bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- MacConnell’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Long-legged myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Pale shrew tenrec bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Hodgson’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale