It is hard to guess what a Flat-faced fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Flat-faced fruit-eating bat (Artibeus planirostris) on average weights 47 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Flat-faced fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.5 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.
The flat-faced fruit-eating bat (Artibeus planirostris) is a South American species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the Jamaican fruit bat, but can be distinguished by its larger size, the presence of faint stripes on the face, and of a third molar tooth on each side of the upper jaw. Genetic analysis has also shown that the two species may not be closely related.
Animals of the same family as a Flat-faced fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Great stripe-faced bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Striped hairy-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Velvety fruit-eating bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Tricolored big-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat with a weight of 42 grams
- Brown fruit-eating bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Visored bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Southern little yellow-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Goldman’s nectar bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Flat-faced fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus planirostris:
- Gould’s mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Northern mole vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Gracile tateril bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Greater bulldog bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Short-snouted elephant shrew bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Medje free-tailed bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-striped opossum bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied tree mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale