It is hard to guess what a Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat (Macrotus waterhousii) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Macrotus). They can live for up to 10.42 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.1 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.
Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat (Macrotus waterhousii) is a species of big-eared bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, and Puerto Rico, with a range from Sonora to Hidalgo Mexico, south to Guatemala and the Greater Antilles (excluding Puerto Rico) and Bahamas.
Animals of the same family as a Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Western long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Lesser long-nosed bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Broad-toothed tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Long-legged bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Visored bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Aztec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Gnome fruit-eating bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a weight of 37 grams
- Pygmy round-eared bat with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Macrotus waterhousii:
- Sinaloan pocket mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Black-capped fruit bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Ultimate shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Chinese shrew mole bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Seba’s short-tailed bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Fraser’s musk shrew bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus hilli bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lakeland Downs mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Volcano harvest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat:
- Bicolored musk shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Moupin pika with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hairy big-eyed bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a size of 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fat mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pacific shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat:
- Blue duiker with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Pudú with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Hispaniolan hutia with an average maximal age of 9.83 years
- Edible dormouse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Arabian gazelle with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Rock cavy with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Plains viscacha with an average maximal age of 9.33 years
- Blue duiker with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Desmarest’s hutia with an average maximal age of 11.33 years
- Quokka with an average maximal age of 12 years