It is hard to guess what a Hammer-headed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus) on average weights 336 grams (0.74 lbs).
The Hammer-headed bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Hypsignathus). It is usually born with about 39 grams (0.09 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.6 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Hammer-headed 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 hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus), also known as hammer-headed fruit bat and big-lipped bat, is a megabat widely distributed in equatorial Africa. This large bat is found in riverine forests, mangroves, swamps, and palm forests at elevations less than 1,800 metres (5,900 ft).
Animals of the same family as a Hammer-headed bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a weight of 253 grams
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Dwarf flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a weight of 489 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
- Lesser flying fox with a weight of 296 grams
- Ornate flying fox with a weight of 335 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hammer-headed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hypsignathus monstrosus:
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Buffy-tufted marmoset bringing 387 grams to the scale
- Mutable sun squirrel bringing 390 grams to the scale
- Bower’s white-toothed rat bringing 355 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Greater stick-nest rat bringing 329 grams to the scale
- Northern glider bringing 278 grams to the scale
- European ground squirrel bringing 396 grams to the scale
- Prevost’s squirrel bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 278 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Hammer-headed bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hammer-headed bat:
- Calabar angwantibo with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Common dwarf mongoose with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Slender treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with a size of 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- New Guinean quoll with a size of 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black flying fox with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Summit rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hammer-headed bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Hammer-headed bat: