It is hard to guess what a Peninsular horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Peninsular horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus robinsoni) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Peninsular 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.
The Peninsular horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus robinsoni) is a species of bat native to Malaysia and Thailand.
Animals of the same family as a Peninsular horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Spurred roundleaf bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Rhinolophus simplex with a weight of 6 grams
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Woolly horseshoe bat with a weight of 34 grams
- Paratriaenops furculus with a weight of 5 grams
- Large rufous horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Jones’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Peninsular horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus robinsoni:
- Ozimops planiceps bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Tundra shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Southern pygmy mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Daubenton’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Reddish-gray musk shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Arcuate horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Baird’s shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Southern little yellow-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Spurrell’s free-tailed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale