It is hard to guess what a Hairy fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairy fruit-eating bat (Artibeus hirsutus) on average weights 40 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Hairy 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.
The hairy fruit-eating bat (Artibeus hirsutus) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is endemic to Mexico. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- White-throated round-eared bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Buffy broad-nosed bat with a weight of 50 grams
- Aztec fruit-eating bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Buffy flower bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Goldman’s nectar bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus hirsutus:
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori thicket rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Northern mole vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Tschudi’s slender opossum bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Olrog’s chaco mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Medje free-tailed bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale