It is hard to guess what a Pearson’s horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pearson’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus pearsonii) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Pearson’s horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.14 meter (3′ 9″).
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.
Pearson’s horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus pearsonii) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae.It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.
Animals of the same family as a Pearson’s horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Rhinolophus sedulus with a weight of 8 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 46 grams
- Lesser horseshoe bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Wollaston’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Large Asian roundleaf bat with a weight of 31 grams
- Rhinolophus hilli with a weight of 13 grams
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pearson’s horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus pearsonii:
- Damara woolly bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Egyptian slit-faced bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Ooldea dunnart bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Tailed tailless bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Brants’s climbing mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Common bent-wing bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Southern dog-faced bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys altissimus bringing 13 grams to the scale