It is hard to guess what a Tacarcuna bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tacarcuna bat (Lasiurus castaneus) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Tacarcuna bat is from the family Vespertilionidae (genus: Lasiurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 85.5 cm (2′ 10″).
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 Tacarcuna bat (Lasiurus castaneus) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama and possibly Colombia.
Animals of the same family as a Tacarcuna bat
We found other animals of the Vespertilionidae family:
- Abo bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Lesser noctule with a weight of 12 grams
- Hinde’s lesser house bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Curacao myotis with a weight of 3 grams
- Little forest bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Least pipistrelle with a weight of 4 grams
- Geoffroy’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Northern cave bat with 1 babies per litter
- Common bent-wing bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Daubenton’s bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tacarcuna bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lasiurus castaneus:
- Little Indian field mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Gould’s long-eared bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- California leaf-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Black-gilded pipistrelle bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Flat-skulled shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Silky short-tailed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Plains harvest mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 10 grams to the scale