It is hard to guess what a Brown fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown fruit-eating bat (Artibeus concolor) on average weights 19 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Brown fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 69.2 cm (2′ 4″).
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 brown fruit-eating bat (Artibeus concolor) is a bat species from South America. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Brown fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 49 grams
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Visored bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Gray long-tongued bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Tailed tailless bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Big-eared woolly bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a weight of 37 grams
- Fringe-lipped bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Tonatia brasiliense with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brown fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus concolor:
- Ningbing false antechinus bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Sierra Leone free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Blackish grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Handley’s tailless bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Stella wood mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Nigerian free-tailed bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Sinaloan mastiff bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Tickell’s bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- African pygmy squirrel bringing 16 grams to the scale