It is hard to guess what a Striped hairy-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Striped hairy-nosed bat (Mimon crenulatum) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Striped hairy-nosed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Mimon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.6 cm (0′ 7″).
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 striped hairy-nosed bat (Mimon crenulatum) is a bat species from South and Central America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Striped hairy-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Little white-shouldered bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Buffy flower bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Little yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Pygmy round-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Tomes’s sword-nosed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Brown flower bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Fischer’s little fruit bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Tonatia silvicola with a weight of 32 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Striped hairy-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mimon crenulatum:
- Western broad-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Pygmy fruit bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Upemba shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Negros shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Cape horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Common planigale bringing 12 grams to the scale
- African black shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Glacier Bay water shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Gould’s wattled bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Eptesicus demissus bringing 13 grams to the scale