It is hard to guess what a Greater musky fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater musky fruit bat (Ptenochirus jagori) on average weights 79 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Greater musky fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Ptenochirus). It is usually born with about 17 grams (0.04 lbs). They can live for up to 8 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Greater musky fruit 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 greater musky fruit bat (Ptenochirus jagori) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Philippines. It was named by Peters for Fedor Jagor.
Animals of the same family as a Greater musky fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 132 grams
- Pteropus temmincki with a weight of 250 grams
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a weight of 116 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 236 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 465 grams
- Large flying fox bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Little red flying fox with a weight of 379 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater musky fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ptenochirus jagori:
- Geoffroy’s rousette bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Southern mole vole bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Splendid climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Zambian mole-rat bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Northern rufous mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Amazon dwarf squirrel bringing 92 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater musky fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Greater musky fruit bat:
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Kloss’s gibbon
- New Zealand sea lion
- Small bent-winged bat
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey
- Woolly horseshoe bat
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Eastern bettong
- Chinese pangolin
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Greater musky fruit bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Greater musky fruit bat:
- Crowned lemur with an average maximal age of 9.17 years
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Indian gerbil with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Mountain degu with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Yellow-bellied marmot with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Gray dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Red-flanked duiker with an average maximal age of 9.5 years