It is hard to guess what a Ceram fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ceram fruit bat (Pteropus ocularis) on average weights 228 grams (0.5 lbs).
The Ceram fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.2 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Ceram fruit bat or Seram flying fox (Pteropus ocularis) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the mountainous forests of two Indonesian islands, Buru and Seram, including the Manusela National Park on Seram. They were once present on the nearby Ambon Island, but probably not anymore. The habitat has an area of less than 20,000 km2, and is decreasing due to logging. For this reason, and because of hunting by the local population, these species are listed as vulnerable by the IUCN since 1996.
Animals of the same family as a Ceram fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 236 grams
- Long-tongued fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Black-capped fruit bat with a weight of 17 grams
- New Caledonia flying fox with a weight of 151 grams
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
- Montane monkey-faced bat with a weight of 290 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ceram fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus ocularis:
- Richmond’s squirrel bringing 237 grams to the scale
- Senegal bushbaby bringing 216 grams to the scale
- Greedy olalla rat bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s ground squirrel bringing 207 grams to the scale
- Tamaulipan woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Banks flying fox bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Vogelkop ringtail possum bringing 255 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket gopher bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Royle’s pika bringing 260 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ceram fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ceram fruit bat:
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Richmond’s squirrel with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Buffy-headed marmoset with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Four-toed elephant shrew with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Perote ground squirrel with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lyle’s flying fox with a size of 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Stoat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- New Guinea waterside rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Turkestan red pika with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)