It is hard to guess what a Pomona roundleaf bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pomona roundleaf bat (Hipposideros pomona) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Pomona 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 Pomona roundleaf bat, Pomona leaf-nosed bat, or Andersen’s leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros pomona) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae.It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China (southern), India, Laos, Malaysia (Peninsular), Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.It roosts in small colonies, consisting of a few individuals, in caves and crevices. It appears to tolerate modified habitats well, even occurring in urban areas.
Animals of the same family as a Pomona roundleaf bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Percival’s trident bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Telefomin roundleaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Ridley’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Thailand roundleaf bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Acuminate horseshoe bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Blasius’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Rufous trident bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Least horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pomona roundleaf bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hipposideros pomona:
- Large-eared gray shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Bronze tube-nosed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Mount Lyell shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Tundra shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Pilbara ningaui bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Stoliczka’s trident bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Silver-tipped myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale