It is hard to guess what a Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomops dobsonii) on average weights 122 grams (0.27 lbs).
The Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Epomops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat, or Dobson’s fruit bat (Epomops dobsonii) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 41 grams
- Gray flying fox with a weight of 90 grams
- Sulawesi flying fox with a weight of 383 grams
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 152 grams
- Little collared fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Black flying fox with a weight of 609 grams
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Epomops dobsonii:
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antelope squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Major’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Texas antelope squirrel bringing 113 grams to the scale
- Bramble Cay melomys bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Bush vlei rat bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Indian palm squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Angoni vlei rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Damaraland mole-rat bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 107 grams to the scale