It is hard to guess what a Peters’s disk-winged bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Peters’s disk-winged bat (Thyroptera discifera) on average weights 3 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Peters’s disk-winged bat is from the family Thyropteridae (genus: Thyroptera). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 56.6 cm (1′ 11″).
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.
Peters’s disk-winged bat (Thyroptera discifera) is a bat species mainly found in South and Central America. They belong to the family Thyropteridae which are a small group of disk-winged bats. These bats have a distinguishing feature of circular, suction disks at the base of their thumbs and hind feet. They use these suction disks to cling onto young unfurling banana or heliconia leaves to roost while avoiding the rain and predators. They are very similar in appearance and easily confused with Thyroptera tricolor which has a paler venter than dorsum, and two cartilaginous projections on the calcar.
Animals of the same family as a Peters’s disk-winged bat
We found other animals of the Thyropteridae family:
- Spix’s disk-winged bat with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s disk-winged bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thyroptera discifera:
- Spurrell’s woolly bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Preble’s shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Little forest bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Johnston’s forest shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Bahaman funnel-eared bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Ashy roundleaf bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- Thumbless bat bringing 3 grams to the scale
- American pygmy shrew bringing 3 grams to the scale