It is hard to guess what a Antillean fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Antillean fruit-eating bat (Brachyphylla cavernarum) on average weights 45 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Antillean fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Brachyphylla). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.1 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Antillean fruit-eating bats can have babies 1 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 Antillean fruit-eating bat (Brachyphylla cavernarum) is one of two leaf-nosed bat species belonging to the genus Brachyphylla. The species occurs in the Caribbean from Puerto Rico to St. Vincent and Barbados. Fossil specimens have also been recorded from New Providence, Bahamas.
Animals of the same family as a Antillean fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Velvety fruit-eating bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Mexican long-tongued bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Miller’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Little white-shouldered bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Southern long-nosed bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Big-eared woolly bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Micronycteris nicefori with a weight of 8 grams
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a weight of 19 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Antillean fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Brachyphylla cavernarum:
- Little collared fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- White-winged vampire bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Dark bolo mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Elegant water shrew bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Painted spiny pocket mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Star-nosed mole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Typical striped grass mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Antillean fruit-eating bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Antillean fruit-eating bat:
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese mountain mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean planigale with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desert mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican shrew with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Antillean fruit-eating bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Antillean fruit-eating bat: