It is hard to guess what a Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus labiatus) on average weights 66 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Epomophorus). It is usually born with about 11 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″). Normally, Ethiopian epauletted fruit bats can have babies 2 times a year.
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 Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus labiatus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Burundi, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and moist savanna. It is threatened by habitat destruction.
Animals of the same family as a Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- White-winged flying fox with a weight of 343 grams
- Black-capped fruit bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Minute fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Ceram fruit bat with a weight of 228 grams
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Cave nectar bat with a weight of 58 grams
- Little golden-mantled flying fox with a weight of 184 grams
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Epomophorus labiatus:
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed mountain rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Crab-eating rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Big-eared woolly bat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Aquatic rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys megacephalus bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys nitidus bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 56 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat:
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Julia Creek dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Panama slender opossum with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern grasshopper mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ash-grey mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)