It is hard to guess what a Pel’s pouched bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pel’s pouched bat (Saccolaimus peli) on average weights 53 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Pel’s pouched bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Saccolaimus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Pel’s pouched 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.
Pel’s pouched bat (Saccolaimus peli) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae.It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Pel’s pouched bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Dark sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 2 grams
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Gray sac-winged bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Egyptian tomb bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Greater ghost bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Short-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Northern ghost bat with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pel’s pouched bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saccolaimus peli:
- Michoacan deer mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- African wading rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys macconnelli bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys levipes bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Flat-headed vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Southern multimammate mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Large fruit-eating bat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Whitehead’s spiny rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Western mastiff bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Pel’s pouched bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Pel’s pouched bat: