It is hard to guess what a Luzon fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Luzon fruit bat (Otopteropus cartilagonodus) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Luzon fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Otopteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.4 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Luzon fruit bats can have babies 1 times a year.
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 Luzon fruit bat (Otopteropus cartilagonodus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is monotypic within the genus Otopteropus. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Luzon fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Dwarf flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
- Black-capped fruit bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Minor epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 131 grams
- Dusky fruit bat with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Luzon fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Otopteropus cartilagonodus:
- Olive grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- San Diego pocket mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Glacier Bay water shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Sinaloan pocket mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Neacomys spinosus bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Chestnut short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Small vesper mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale