It is hard to guess what a Underwood’s long-tongued bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Underwood’s long-tongued bat (Hylonycteris underwoodi) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Underwood’s long-tongued bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Hylonycteris). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.9 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.
Underwood’s long-tongued bat (Hylonycteris underwoodi) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is monotypic within the genus Hylonycteris. It is found in Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama.
Animals of the same family as a Underwood’s long-tongued bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Little yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Hairy fruit-eating bat with a weight of 40 grams
- Chestnut long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Greater round-eared bat with a weight of 27 grams
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 49 grams
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Eldorado broad-nosed bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Chestnut short-tailed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Tailed tailless bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Underwood’s long-tongued bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hylonycteris underwoodi:
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Sahelian tiny shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Long-legged myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Micronomus bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Trinidadian funnel-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Brown pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Lesser white-toothed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Underwood’s long-tongued bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Underwood’s long-tongued bat:
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cinereus shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little brown bat with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Olive-backed pocket mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Western harvest mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)