It is hard to guess what a Southern dog-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern dog-faced bat (Cynomops planirostris) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Southern dog-faced bat is from the family Molossidae (genus: Cynomops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 64.7 cm (2′ 2″). Usually, Southern dog-faced bats have 1 babies per litter.
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 southern dog-faced bat (Cynomops planirostris), is a Central and South American bat species of the family Molossidae. It is found in northern Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Southern dog-faced bat
We found other animals of the Molossidae family:
- Nigerian free-tailed bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Velvety free-tailed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Spotted free-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Mato Grosso dog-faced bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Para dog-faced bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Spurrell’s free-tailed bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Big bonneted bat with a weight of 83 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern dog-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cynomops planirostris:
- Little big-eyed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Papillose woolly bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Rufous trident bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Eptesicus demissus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- White-bellied lesser house bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Savanna shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Pleasant gerbil bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Intermediate long-fingered bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Large-eared slit-faced bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Gray long-tongued bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern dog-faced bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Southern dog-faced bat: