It is hard to guess what a Silky short-tailed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Silky short-tailed bat (Carollia brevicauda) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Silky short-tailed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Carollia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 74.1 cm (2′ 6″).
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 silky short-tailed bat (Carollia brevicauda) is a bat species from South and Central America. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Mexico and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Silky short-tailed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Little white-shouldered bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Little big-eared bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Greater round-eared bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Golden bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Goldman’s nectar bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Big-eared woolly bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Brown flower bat with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Silky short-tailed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Carollia brevicauda:
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Gray short-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Lesser ghost bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Gould’s wattled bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Lovat’s climbing mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Sandy inland mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Canyon mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Parti-coloured bat bringing 15 grams to the scale