It is hard to guess what a Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira oporaphilum) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Sturnira). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.6 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat (Sturnira oporaphilum), is an extant species of leaf-nosed bat indigenous to Argentina, Ecuador, and Peru, with its range also encompassing Bolivia.
Animals of the same family as a Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Fringed fruit-eating bat with a weight of 63 grams
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Southern little yellow-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Chestnut long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- California leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Silky short-tailed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a weight of 37 grams
- Tilda’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Dark long-tongued bat with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sturnira oporaphilum:
- Thespian grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Kultarr bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Northern bog lemming bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Grant’s golden mole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Ugandan musk shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys griseolus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed caenolestid bringing 21 grams to the scale