It is hard to guess what a Yellow-winged bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-winged bat (Lavia frons) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Yellow-winged bat is from the family Megadermatidae (genus: Lavia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Yellow-winged bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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-winged bat (Lavia frons) is one of five species of false vampire bat (family Megadermatidae) from Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-winged bat
We found other animals of the Megadermatidae family:
- Ghost bat with a weight of 124 grams
- Lesser false vampire bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Greater false vampire bat with a weight of 39 grams
- Heart-nosed bat with a weight of 26 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-winged bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lavia frons:
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Aztec fruit-eating bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-nosed bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Pygmy rock mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Bolivian vesper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-winged bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yellow-winged bat:
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pacific shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Smoky shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Usambara shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Egyptian tomb bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Plains pocket mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser striped shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Yellow-winged bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Yellow-winged bat: