It is hard to guess what a Triaenops rufus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Triaenops rufus (Triaenops rufus) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Triaenops rufus is from the family Hipposideridae (genus: Triaenops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.7 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Triaenops rufus can refer to:Triaenops menamena, the bat species from Madagascar to which the name was long, but incorrectly, appliedTriaenops persicus, the Middle Eastern species of which it is in fact a synonym
Animals of the same family as a Triaenops rufus
We found other animals of the Hipposideridae family:
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Giant roundleaf bat with a weight of 115 grams
- East Asian tailless leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Triaenops rufus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Triaenops rufus:
- Lesser long-tongued bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Chocolate wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Tailed tailless bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Southern ningaui bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Brants’s climbing mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Chestnut climbing mouse bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Silvered bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Western barbastelle bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Bicolored roundleaf bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Triaenops rufus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Triaenops rufus:
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yucatan deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red tree vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Townsend’s mole with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chestnut dunnart with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Steppe mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nayarit mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)