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.
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:
- Common sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Northern ghost bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Lesser ghost bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Taphozous philippinensis with a weight of 20 grams
- Greater ghost bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Black-bearded tomb bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
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:
- Remy’s pygmy shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Carmen Mountain shrew bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Western small-footed bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Little yellow bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Maclaud’s horseshoe bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Pygmy shrew tenrec bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Pygmy long-eared bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Trinidad dog-like bat bringing 4 grams to the scale
- Kerivoula hardwickei bringing 4 grams to the scale
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:
- Indiana bat with a size of 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Cuban flower bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert long-eared bat with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dwarf shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a size of 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Iberian shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)