It is hard to guess what a Harpy fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Harpy fruit bat (Harpyionycteris whiteheadi) on average weights 135 grams (0.3 lbs).
The Harpy fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Harpyionycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.2 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Harpy fruit bats can have babies 2 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 harpy fruit bat (Harpyionycteris whiteheadi) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Harpy fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Hammer-headed bat with a weight of 336 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a weight of 489 grams
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- Admiralty flying fox with a weight of 305 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 121 grams
- Lesser flying fox with a weight of 296 grams
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Harpy fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Harpyionycteris whiteheadi:
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Garden dormouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Furtive tuco-tuco bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Fraternal hill rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Alston’s mouse opossum bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Silvery mole-rat bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Bolivian chinchilla rat bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Baird’s pocket gopher bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Northern pika bringing 120 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Harpy fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Harpy fruit bat:
- Phillips’s gerbil with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog striped shrew-rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Asian house shrew with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-collared chipmunk with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern flying squirrel with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palmer’s chipmunk with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- California vole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Harpy fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Harpy fruit bat: