It is hard to guess what a Wagner’s mustached bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wagner’s mustached bat (Pteronotus personatus) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Wagner’s mustached bat is from the family Mormoopidae (genus: Pteronotus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.5 cm (0′ 2″).
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.
Wagner’s mustached bat (Pteronotus personatus) is a bat species from South and Central America. It is one of the few New World bats species known to perform Doppler-shift compensation behavior.
Animals of the same family as a Wagner’s mustached bat
We found other animals of the Mormoopidae family:
- Antillean ghost-faced bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Ghost-faced bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Parnell’s mustached bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Sooty mustached bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Antillean ghost-faced bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Big naked-backed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Davy’s naked-backed bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Wagner’s mustached bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteronotus personatus:
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Chocolate wattled bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Southern little yellow-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- New Guinea long-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tailed shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Sahelian tiny shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Wagner’s mustached bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Wagner’s mustached bat:
- Eurasian least shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Least shrew tenrec with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southeastern shrew with a size of 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser horseshoe bat with a size of 3.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Johnston’s forest shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fringed myotis with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woermann’s bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Proboscis bat with a size of 4.2 cm (0′ 2″)
- Common pipistrelle with a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)