It is hard to guess what a Tailed tailless bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tailed tailless bat (Anoura caudifera) 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″). Usually, Tailed tailless 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 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:
- Micronycteris nicefori with a weight of 8 grams
- Tilda’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Lesser long-nosed bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Brown flower bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Greater round-eared bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Pale spear-nosed bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Orange nectar bat with a weight of 13 grams
- White-throated round-eared bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Fringed fruit-eating bat with a weight of 63 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 caudifera:
- Dwarf bonneted bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Noack’s roundleaf bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-tongued bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Mahomet mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Southern birch mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Little white-shouldered bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Micronomus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dwarf little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Olive-backed pocket mouse bringing 11 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:
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Plains pocket mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fat mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Preble’s shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Velvety free-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Least shrew tenrec with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser bulldog bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saharan shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tailed tailless bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Tailed tailless bat: