It is hard to guess what a Gervais’s fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gervais’s fruit-eating bat (Artibeus cinereus) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Gervais’s fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 69.2 cm (2′ 4″).
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.
Gervais’s fruit-eating bat (Dermanura cinerea) is a bat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, eastern Peru, Suriname and eastern Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Gervais’s fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Velvety fruit-eating bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Davies’s big-eared bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Little white-shouldered bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Ega long-tongued bat with a weight of 49 grams
- White-winged vampire bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Wrinkle-faced bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Greater spear-nosed bat with a weight of 91 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat with a weight of 22 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gervais’s fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus cinereus:
- Damara woolly bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Central pebble-mound mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Chestnut short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Common bent-wing bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Feathertail glider bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Cape hairy bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Large-eared horseshoe bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Rohu’s bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale