It is hard to guess what a Cuban fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cuban fruit-eating bat (Brachyphylla nana) on average weights 37 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Cuban fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Brachyphylla). It is usually born with about 13 grams (0.03 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.4 cm (0′ 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 Cuban fruit-eating bat (Brachyphylla nana) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae found in the Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Turks and Caicos Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Cuban fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Leach’s single leaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Chestnut short-tailed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Mexican long-tongued bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Hairy fruit-eating bat with a weight of 40 grams
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Spectral bat with a weight of 171 grams
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Thomas’s nectar bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cuban fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Brachyphylla nana:
- Neuquén grass mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Plateau mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- White-bellied slender opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Large Japanese field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Hatt’s vesper rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori thicket rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian gerbil bringing 42 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cuban fruit-eating bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cuban fruit-eating bat:
- African pygmy squirrel with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wood mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Egyptian free-tailed bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- North American least shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bornean water shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu shrew with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive-backed pocket mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)