It is hard to guess what a Halmahera blossom bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Halmahera blossom bat (Syconycteris carolinae) on average weights 39 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Halmahera blossom bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Syconycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 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 Halmahera blossom bat (Syconycteris carolinae) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.The bat is endemic to Halmahera and Bacan islands, of the northern Maluku Islands archipelago in Indonesia.It is an IUCN Red List Vulnerable species because: its extent of occurrence is less than 20,000 km²; it is known only from three locations; and there is ongoing decline in the extent and quality of its habitat due to intensified habitat destruction. A 2017 study ranked the species as the 8th highest research priority among island endemic bats based on conservation situation and current data availability.
Animals of the same family as a Halmahera blossom bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Long-haired rousette with a weight of 104 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with a weight of 296 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Halmahera blossom bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Syconycteris carolinae:
- Singing vole bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Pousargues African fat mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- California red tree mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Macmillan’s thicket rat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- White-footed climbing mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s flying squirrel bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Short-haired water rat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale