It is hard to guess what a Tomes’s sword-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tomes’s sword-nosed bat (Lonchorhina aurita) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Tomes’s sword-nosed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Lonchorhina). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.28 meter (7′ 6″). Normally, Tomes’s sword-nosed bats can have babies 1 times a year.
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.
Tomes’s sword-nosed bat (Lonchorhina aurita), also known as the common sword-nosed bat is a bat species from South and Central America. It is also found in the Bahamas, as is known only from one specimen collected on the island of New Providence.In 2006, the bat was rediscovered in the Santa Cruz Department of Bolivia by scientists Aideé Vargas and Kathrin Barboza Marquez. Prior to their find, it was believed that the bat had been extinct in Bolivia for 72 years. There has since been an Ecological Sanctuary established at the town of San Juan de Corralito located in the Ángel Sandoval Province to protect the species.
Animals of the same family as a Tomes’s sword-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Dark long-tongued bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Broad-toothed tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Southern long-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Micronycteris sylvestris with a weight of 8 grams
- Brown fruit-eating bat with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tomes’s sword-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lonchorhina aurita:
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- African pygmy squirrel bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Small vesper mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Meadow jumping mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Dark kangaroo mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Rohu’s bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Aztec mastiff bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Schultz’s round-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Bogotá grass mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Spotted bat bringing 16 grams to the scale