It is hard to guess what a Pygmy round-eared bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pygmy round-eared bat (Lophostoma brasiliense) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Pygmy round-eared bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Lophostoma). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 51 cm (1′ 9″).
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 pygmy round-eared bat (Lophostoma brasiliense) is a bat species from South and Central America.
Animals of the same family as a Pygmy round-eared bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat with a weight of 42 grams
- Buffy broad-nosed bat with a weight of 50 grams
- Guianan spear-nosed bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Western long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Silky short-tailed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Brown flower bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Great stripe-faced bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Leach’s single leaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy round-eared bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lophostoma brasiliense:
- Large-toothed shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Greater white-toothed shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Brown long-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Antillean ghost-faced bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Silvered bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Pilliga mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Lander’s horseshoe bat bringing 9 grams to the scale