It is hard to guess what a Philippine forest roundleaf bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Philippine forest roundleaf bat (Hipposideros obscurus) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Philippine forest roundleaf bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Hipposideros). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 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 Philippine forest roundleaf bat (Hipposideros obscurus) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Philippine forest roundleaf bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Philippine forest horseshoe bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Darling’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Large-eared horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Big-eared horseshoe bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Temminck’s trident bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Maclaud’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Eloquent horseshoe bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Pearson’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Philippine forest roundleaf bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hipposideros obscurus:
- Blackish small-eared shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Southern ningaui bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Common shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Brown long-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bicolored shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris nicefori bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Leach’s single leaf bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Arizona myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Lesser large-footed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale