It is hard to guess what a Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat (Haplonycteris fischeri) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Haplonycteris). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 37 cm (1′ 3″). On average, Fischer’s pygmy fruit bats can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat or Philippine pygmy fruit bat (Haplonycteris fischeri) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is monotypic within the genus Haplonycteris. It is endemic to the Philippines. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Minute fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Mariana fruit bat with a weight of 458 grams
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 239 grams
- Lombok flying fox with a weight of 256 grams
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat with a weight of 172 grams
- Little collared fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Haplonycteris fischeri:
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Halcyon horseshoe bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Aceramarca gracile opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Great bent-winged bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Tree bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Spotted free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- White-footed mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Niobe’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat:
- Red kangaroo
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Southwestern myotis
- South Asian river dolphin
- Parti-coloured bat
- Wroughton’s free-tailed bat
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat
- Forest giant squirrel
- New Zealand sea lion
- Northern bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat:
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Pudú with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Eastern spotted skunk with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Dice’s cottontail with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Red acouchi with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Weasel sportive lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Banded linsang with an average maximal age of 10.67 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Long-nosed potoroo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Red-tailed chipmunk with an average maximal age of 8 years