It is hard to guess what a Blanford’s fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Blanford’s fruit bat (Sphaerias blanfordi) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Blanford’s fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Sphaerias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.6 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Blanford’s fruit bat (Sphaerias blanfordi) is a mountain species of megabat. The only recording of it was from the Doi Suthep-Pui National Park in Chiengmai, Thailand. According to Lekagul and McNeely (1977), the species is confined to the Thai-Burmese border, Uttar Pradesh in India and eastern Nepal.
Animals of the same family as a Blanford’s fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 200 grams
- Mariana fruit bat with a weight of 458 grams
- Harpy fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Small flying fox with a weight of 434 grams
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
- Ornate flying fox with a weight of 335 grams
- Pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Blanford’s fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sphaerias blanfordi:
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Common sheath-tailed bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Eastern heather vole bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Akodon spegazzinii bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Himalayan water shrew bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed gerbil bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Big crested mastiff bat bringing 29 grams to the scale