It is hard to guess what a Bulmer’s fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bulmer’s fruit bat (Aproteles bulmerae) on average weights 621 grams (1.37 lbs).
The Bulmer’s fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Aproteles). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24.5 cm (0′ 10″). On average, Bulmer’s fruit 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.
Bulmer’s fruit bat (Aproteles bulmerae) is a megabat endemic to New Guinea. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and hunting. It is the only member of the genus Aproteles. Due to its imperiled status, it is identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction as a species in danger of imminent extinction.
Animals of the same family as a Bulmer’s fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Little collared fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Dusky fruit bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Lyle’s flying fox with a weight of 319 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a weight of 489 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Mariana fruit bat with a weight of 458 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bulmer’s fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Aproteles bulmerae:
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 736 grams to the scale
- Golden-headed lion tamarin bringing 573 grams to the scale
- Rakali bringing 626 grams to the scale
- Dark spiny tree-rat bringing 627 grams to the scale
- Bismarck giant rat bringing 612 grams to the scale
- Broad-faced potoroo bringing 499 grams to the scale
- New Guinean quoll bringing 611 grams to the scale
- Brown-tailed mongoose bringing 711 grams to the scale
- Siberian weasel bringing 531 grams to the scale
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing 620 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bulmer’s fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bulmer’s fruit bat:
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 28.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-bellied weasel with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Forest giant squirrel with a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lowland ringtail possum with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lesser stick-nest rat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bryant’s woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Solomons flying fox with a size of 25.6 cm (0′ 11″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bulmer’s fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bulmer’s fruit bat: