It is hard to guess what a Yellow-faced horseshoe bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-faced horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus virgo) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Yellow-faced horseshoe bat is from the family Rhinolophidae (genus: Rhinolophus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2 cm (0′ 1″).
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.
The yellow-faced horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus virgo) is a species of bat in the family Rhinolophidae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-faced horseshoe bat
We found other animals of the Rhinolophidae family:
- Large Asian roundleaf bat with a weight of 31 grams
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat with a weight of 3 grams
- Smaller horseshoe bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Swinny’s horseshoe bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Northern leaf-nosed bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Borneo roundleaf bat with a weight of 2 grams
- Trident bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Greater horseshoe bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Borneo roundleaf bat with a weight of 4 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-faced horseshoe bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinolophus virgo:
- Lesser dwarf shrew bringing 5 grams to the scale
- White-winged serotine bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Malayan tailless leaf-nosed bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Red myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Malayan horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Spurred roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Flores woolly bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Pilbara ningaui bringing 6 grams to the scale