It is hard to guess what a Wollaston’s roundleaf bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wollaston’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros wollastoni) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Wollaston’s roundleaf bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Hipposideros). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 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.
Wollaston’s roundleaf bat (Hipposideros wollastoni) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It was named after the explorer Sandy Wollaston.
Animals of the same family as a Wollaston’s roundleaf bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Croslet horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Benito roundleaf bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Blyth’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Smaller horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Ridley’s leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Rufous trident bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Coelops frithi with a weight of 7 grams
- Greater horseshoe bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Trefoil horseshoe bat with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Wollaston’s roundleaf bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hipposideros wollastoni:
- Fraternal myotis bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Verapaz shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Large forest bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Lesser woolly bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Keen’s myotis bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Daubenton’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus simplex bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Montane myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Botswanan long-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale