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How much does a Peters’s sheath-tailed bat weight?

It is hard to guess what a Peters’s sheath-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:

An adult Peters’s sheath-tailed bat (Emballonura atrata) on average weights 4 grams (0.01 lbs).

The Peters’s sheath-tailed bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Emballonura). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.7 cm (0′ 3″).

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 average adult weight of a Peters's sheath-tailed bat is 4 grams (0.01 lbs)

Peters’s sheath-tailed bat (Paremballonura atrata) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. It is found only in Madagascar. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Animals of the same family as a Peters’s sheath-tailed bat

We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:

Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s sheath-tailed bat

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Emballonura atrata:

Animals with the same size as a Peters’s sheath-tailed bat

Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Peters’s sheath-tailed bat: