It is hard to guess what a Dark fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dark fruit-eating bat (Artibeus obscurus) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Dark fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 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 dark fruit-eating bat (Artibeus obscurus), is a bat species from South America.
Animals of the same family as a Dark fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Pale-faced bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Gray long-tongued bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Red fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Little yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with a weight of 45 grams
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Large fruit-eating bat with a weight of 61 grams
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dark fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus obscurus:
- Mindanao montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Short-palated fruit bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- European free-tailed bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Roraima mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys nigripes bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Montane vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale