It is hard to guess what a Seba’s short-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) on average weights 19 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Seba’s short-tailed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Carollia). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 12.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Seba’s short-tailed bats can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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.
Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) is a common and widespread bat species in the family Phyllostomidae. They are found in Central America, the northern parts of South America, and in the Antilles islands.
Animals of the same family as a Seba’s short-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Great fruit-eating bat with a weight of 59 grams
- Dwarf little fruit bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Tonatia brasiliense with a weight of 9 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Lesser spear-nosed bat with a weight of 41 grams
- Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Tonatia carrikeri with a weight of 22 grams
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a weight of 11 grams
- White-bellied big-eared bat with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Seba’s short-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Carollia perspicillata:
- San Diego pocket mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed pocket mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Northern yellow bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Van Gelder’s bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Northern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Gerbil mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Canyon mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Seba’s short-tailed bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Seba’s short-tailed bat:
- Ornate shrew with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Red fruit bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater bulldog bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser ranee mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Trowbridge’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Seba’s short-tailed bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Seba’s short-tailed bat:
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat
- Rusty pipistrelle
- Moonrat
- Lesser bamboo bat
- Blue wildebeest
- Caribbean monk seal
- Raffray’s bandicoot
- Pale spear-nosed bat
- Mantled guereza
- Red-bellied lemur
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Seba’s short-tailed bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Seba’s short-tailed bat:
- Brown palm civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Banded mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Black-footed ferret with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Spectral tarsier with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Arabian gazelle with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Myotis vivesi with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Parti-coloured bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Western tree hyrax with an average maximal age of 10 years