It is hard to guess what a Cave nectar bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cave nectar bat (Eonycteris spelaea) on average weights 58 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Cave nectar bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Eonycteris). It is usually born with about 14 grams (0.03 lbs). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.4 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Cave nectar bats can have babies 2 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 cave nectar bat, dawn bat, common dawn bat, common nectar bat or lesser dawn bat (Eonycteris spelaea) is a species of megabat within the genus Eonycteris. The scientific name of the species was first published by Dobson in 1871.
Animals of the same family as a Cave nectar bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Mauritian flying fox with a weight of 473 grams
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat with a weight of 172 grams
- Black flying fox with a weight of 609 grams
- Pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Woermann’s bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Greater musky fruit bat with a weight of 79 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 165 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cave nectar bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eonycteris spelaea:
- African wading rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Murree vole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed jird bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Jentink’s flying squirrel bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Single-striped grass mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Dusky antechinus bringing 62 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cave nectar bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cave nectar bat:
- Djoongari with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern mole with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cape elephant shrew with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ghost bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Polynesian rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shining thicket rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cave nectar bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Cave nectar bat:
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat
- Little collared fruit bat
- Jalapan pine vole
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Long-fingered triok
- Hispaniolan hutia
- Kinkajou
- South American tapir
- Highland brush mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Cave nectar bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Cave nectar bat:
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Derby’s woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with an average maximal age of 5.58 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- European hamster with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Steppe pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Numbat with an average maximal age of 6 years