It is hard to guess what a Black-bellied fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black-bellied fruit bat (Melonycteris melanops) on average weights 47 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Black-bellied fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Melonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″). Normally, Black-bellied fruit bats can have babies 2 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 black-bellied fruit bat (Melonycteris melanops) is a species of order Chiroptera in the family Pteropodidae.
Animals of the same family as a Black-bellied fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat with a weight of 39 grams
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox bringing 1.09 kilos (2.4 lbs) to the scale
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 131 grams
- Greater nectar bat with a weight of 72 grams
- Solomons flying fox with a weight of 661 grams
- New Caledonia flying fox with a weight of 151 grams
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black-bellied fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melonycteris melanops:
- Abrothrix longipilis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Marsh rice rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Andean leaf-eared mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Meadow vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Great roundleaf bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Least chipmunk bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Montane fish-eating rat bringing 39 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Black-bellied fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black-bellied fruit bat:
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Small Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chacoan pygmy opossum with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Florida mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western chestnut mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied slender opossum with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)