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How much does a Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat weight?

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

An adult Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat (Mormopterus jugularis) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).

The Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Mormopterus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.6 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 wrinkle-lipped bat is 11 grams (0.02 lbs)

Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat (Mormopterus jugularis), also called Peters’s goblin bat, is a species of bat in the family Molossidae, the free-tailed bats. It is endemic to Madagascar, where it is widespread and in some areas abundant.It commonly roosts in human-made structures, sometimes in colonies with other free-tailed bat species. It forages in the open, often in agricultural areas.The bat is sexually dimorphic, with males larger than females.

Animals of the same family as a Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat

We found other animals of the Molossidae family:

Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mormopterus jugularis: