It is hard to guess what a Dayak fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dayak fruit bat (Dyacopterus spadiceus) on average weights 81 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Dayak fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dyacopterus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″).
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 dayak fruit bat or dyak fruit bat (Dyacopterus spadiceus) is a relatively rare frugivorous megabat species found only on the Sunda Shelf of southeast Asia, specifically the Malay Peninsula south of the Isthmus of Kra, and the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. There are three species in the genus Dyacopterus: D. spadiceus, D. brooksi and D. rickarti. All are found in the forests of Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Few specimens of any of the three species exist, due not only to their rarity, but also because they rarely enter the subcanopy of the forest where they can be caught in scientists’ nets.
Animals of the same family as a Dayak fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Pohle’s fruit bat with a weight of 69 grams
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 93 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with a weight of 84 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dayak fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dyacopterus spadiceus:
- Kemp’s thicket rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s rousette bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Durango chipmunk bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Tiny tuco-tuco bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Slender Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Voalavoanala bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Angolan rousette bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed mole vole bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Siskiyou chipmunk bringing 75 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dayak fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dayak fruit bat:
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- California vole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Texas antelope squirrel with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)