It is hard to guess what a Rhinolophus hilli weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rhinolophus hilli (Rhinolophus hilli) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Rhinolophus hilli is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 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.
For the species found in Cameroon, Guinea, Liberia, and Nigeria called Hill’s horseshoe bat, see Rhinolophus hillorumRhinolophus hilli, Hill’s horseshoe bat, is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is endemic to Rwanda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, caves, and subterranean habitats (other than caves). In 2013, Bat Conservation International listed this species as one of the 35 species of its worldwide priority list of conservation. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Rhinolophus hilli
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Great roundleaf bat with a weight of 50 grams
- Pearson’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Stoliczka’s trident bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Lesser horseshoe bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Bushveld horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Smaller horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Croslet horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Telefomin roundleaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Rhinolophus hilli
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus hilli:
- Greater long-tailed hamster bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Spotted-winged fruit bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Greater long-fingered bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Allen’s big-eared bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Tomes’s sword-nosed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Common planigale bringing 12 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Rhinolophus hilli
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Rhinolophus hilli:
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pale shrew tenrec with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Smoky shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tien Shan shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)