It is hard to guess what a Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomops dobsoni) on average weights 121 grams (0.27 lbs).
The Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Epomops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.7 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat, or Dobson’s fruit bat (Epomops dobsonii) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox with a weight of 396 grams
- Zenker’s fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a weight of 524 grams
- Spectacled flying fox with a weight of 759 grams
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with a weight of 296 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 236 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Epomops dobsoni:
- Hispid cotton rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Tanezumi rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Unexpected cotton rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- African groove-toothed rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s bushbaby bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel bringing 130 grams to the scale