It is hard to guess what a Greater short-nosed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx) on average weights 44 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Greater short-nosed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Cynopterus). It is usually born with about 11 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Greater short-nosed 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 short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus sphinx), or short-nosed Indian fruit bat, is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in South and Southeast Asia.
Animals of the same family as a Greater short-nosed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 56 grams
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Indian flying fox with a weight of 822 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 152 grams
- Tailless fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a weight of 489 grams
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Admiralty flying fox with a weight of 305 grams
- Black-eared flying fox with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Greater short-nosed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cynopterus sphinx:
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Silent grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Pousargues African fat mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Least chipmunk bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Buffy broad-nosed bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Large vesper mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Cabrera’s vole bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater short-nosed fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater short-nosed fruit bat:
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- São Paulo grass mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- European free-tailed bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gould’s mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater short-nosed fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Greater short-nosed fruit bat: