How big does a Northern ghost bat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) reaches an average size of 7 cm (0′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 16 grams (0.04 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Northern ghost bats have 1 babies about 1 times per year. The Northern ghost bat (genus: Diclidurus) is a member of the family Emballonuridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) is a bat species from South America, Trinidad, and Central America. It is a relatively rare, completely white, insectivorous bat, with an unusual sac at the base of its tail.
Animals of the same family as a Northern ghost bat
We found other animals of the Emballonuridae family:
- Lesser dog-like bat with a weight of 5 grams
- Theobald’s tomb bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Greater dog-like bat with 1 babies per litter
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat with a weight of 4 grams
- Pel’s pouched bat with 1 babies per litter
- Shaggy bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Long-winged tomb bat with 1 babies per litter
- Mauritian tomb bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Short-eared bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same size as a Northern ghost bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern ghost bat:
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland dormouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern pygmy mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ghost-faced bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Olive-backed pocket mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large slit-faced bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern ghost bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Northern ghost bat:
- Little forest bat
- Bongo (antelope)
- Brazilian shrew mouse
- Sumatran rhinoceros
- Coquerel’s sifaka
- Lion-tailed macaque
- Noack’s roundleaf bat
- Sea otter
- Short-eared rock-wallaby
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
Animals with the same weight as a Northern ghost bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Diclidurus albus:
- American water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Little long-tailed dunnart bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Bonda mastiff bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Trefoil horseshoe bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Bogotá grass mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale