It is hard to guess what a Tailed tailless bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tailed tailless bat (Anoura caudifer) on average weights 10 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Tailed tailless bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Anoura). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.8 cm (0′ 3″).
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 tailed tailless bat (Anoura caudifer) is a species of leaf-nosed bat from South America.
Animals of the same family as a Tailed tailless bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Tonatia silvicola with a weight of 32 grams
- Large fruit-eating bat with a weight of 61 grams
- Davies’s big-eared bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Golden bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Buffy broad-nosed bat with a weight of 50 grams
- Ipanema bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Melissa’s yellow-eared bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tailed tailless bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Anoura caudifer:
- Dark-winged lesser house bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Pallid large-footed myotis bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Scaly-footed small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Southern pygmy mouse bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Honey possum bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Gray long-tongued bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Orange leaf-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tailed tailless bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tailed tailless bat:
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a size of 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Cuban flower bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Vagrant shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Johnston’s forest shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Horsfield’s shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bates’s shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)