It is hard to guess what a Common blossom bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) on average weights 17 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Common blossom bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Syconycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Common blossom 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 common blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) also known as the southern blossom bat or Queensland blossom bat, is a megabat in the family Pteropodidae.The common blossom bat feeds mostly on nectar and pollen rather than fruit.It is one of eight Pteropodidae species on mainland Australia. It is one of the smallest of all nectarivorous megabats.
Animals of the same family as a Common blossom bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Large flying fox bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Harpy fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a weight of 351 grams
- Lesser musky fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Short-palated fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Woermann’s bat with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Common blossom bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Syconycteris australis:
- Therese’s shrew bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Meadow jumping mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Little long-tailed dunnart bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Seba’s short-tailed bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Northern three-striped opossum bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Savi’s pine vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Delicate slender opossum bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Long-tongued nectar bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Common blossom bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common blossom bat:
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fat mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Trident bat with a size of 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Steppe mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common blossom bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Common blossom bat: