It is hard to guess what a Dusky fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dusky fruit bat (Penthetor lucasi) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Dusky fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Penthetor). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 88.6 cm (2′ 11″). Usually, Dusky fruit bats have 1 babies per litter.
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 Dusky fruit bat, (Penthetor lucasi) is a species of bat found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Dusky fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Harpy fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Pteropus gilliardi with a weight of 403 grams
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 179 grams
- Lesser musky fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Lesser flying fox with a weight of 296 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dusky fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Penthetor lucasi:
- Fresno kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Stolička’s mountain vole bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Molossops abrasus bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Nigerian gerbil bringing 29 grams to the scale
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Naked mole-rat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Chinese dormouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Hatt’s vesper rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Mindanao montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Dickey’s deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Dusky fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Dusky fruit bat: