It is hard to guess what a Semon’s leaf-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Semon’s leaf-nosed bat (Hipposideros semoni) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Semon’s leaf-nosed 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.
Semon’s leaf-nosed bat or Semon’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros semoni) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Semon’s leaf-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Great roundleaf bat with a weight of 50 grams
- Noack’s roundleaf bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Large Asian roundleaf bat with a weight of 31 grams
- Mehely’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Borneo roundleaf bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Swinny’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Shamel’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Semon’s leaf-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hipposideros semoni:
- Algerian mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Heller’s broad-nosed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lesser large-headed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Brown mastiff bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Brown flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Golden bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Bates’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Bogotá grass mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale