It is hard to guess what a Roberts’s flat-headed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Roberts’s flat-headed bat (Sauromys petrophilus) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Roberts’s flat-headed bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Sauromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 55.7 cm (1′ 10″).
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.
Roberts’s flat-headed bat (Sauromys petrophilus) is a species of free-tailed bat native to southern Africa. It is the only species in the genus Sauromys. The scientific name translates as “rock loving lizard-mouse”, while the common name honours Austin Roberts, who first described the species.
Animals of the same family as a Roberts’s flat-headed bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Spurrell’s free-tailed bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Western mastiff bat with a weight of 50 grams
- Para dog-faced bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Broad-eared bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Angolan free-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Big bonneted bat with a weight of 83 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Roberts’s flat-headed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sauromys petrophilus:
- Ozimops beccarii bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Upemba shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Welwitsch’s bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Eastern shrew mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Chestnut short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Darien harvest mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Northern ghost bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Jamaican flower bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale