It is hard to guess what a Trident bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Trident bat (Asellia tridens) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Trident bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Asellia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.6 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 trident bat or trident leaf-nosed bat (Asellia tridens) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is widely distributed in the Middle East, South and Central Asia, and North, East, and Central Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests, dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, caves and hot deserts.
Animals of the same family as a Trident bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Darling’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 46 grams
- Indian roundleaf bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Borneo roundleaf bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Thailand roundleaf bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Rufous horseshoe bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Telefomin roundleaf bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Large-eared horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Trident bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Asellia tridens:
- Nyctophilus corbeni bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Common bent-wing bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Aztec mastiff bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Brants’s climbing mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Luzon shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Large-footed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Pallid large-footed myotis bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Trident bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Trident bat:
- Vagrant shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southeastern shrew with a size of 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern little yellow-eared bat with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ornate shrew with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Parnell’s mustached bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)