It is hard to guess what a Great fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus lituratus) on average weights 59 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Great fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). It is usually born with about 8 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Great fruit-eating bats can have babies 2 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 great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus lituratus) is a bat species in the family Phyllostomidae from South and Central America. It is found from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina, as well as in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.They are 10.5 g at birth and grow to 65 g as adults.
Animals of the same family as a Great fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Dark fruit-eating bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Big-eared woolly bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Great stripe-faced bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Heller’s broad-nosed bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Fischer’s little fruit bat with a weight of 9 grams
- Spectral bat with a weight of 171 grams
- Micronycteris nicefori with a weight of 8 grams
- White-throated round-eared bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Red fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Great fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus lituratus:
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Ivory Coast rat bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Flat-headed vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Charming thicket rat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Smoky mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Hottentot golden mole bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Julia Creek dunnart bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Great fruit-eating bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Great fruit-eating bat:
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Burt’s deer mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- European free-tailed bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Great fruit-eating bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Great fruit-eating bat: