It is hard to guess what a Shaggy bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Shaggy bat (Centronycteris maximiliani) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Shaggy bat is from the family Emballonuridae (genus: Centronycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 40.4 cm (1′ 4″).
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 shaggy bat (Centronycteris maximiliani) is a bat species from South America. It appears to be a slow flier and has a rather regular pattern of foraging in its home range, a feature shared with other emballonurids. It is also aerial insectivore.
Animals of the same family as a Shaggy bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Greater sac-winged bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Short-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Black-bearded tomb bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Gray sac-winged bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Dark sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 2 grams
- Frosted sac-winged bat with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Shaggy bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Centronycteris maximiliani:
- Malagasy mountain mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Thespian grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Sandstone false antechinus bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Tonatia carrikeri bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Grant’s golden mole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Steppe lemming bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Aceramarca gracile opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Southern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale