It is hard to guess what a Horsfield’s fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Horsfield’s fruit bat (Cynopterus horsfieldi) on average weights 55 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Horsfield’s fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Cynopterus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 28.8 cm (1′ 0″).
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.
Horsfield’s fruit bat (Cynopterus horsfieldii) is a species of megabat native to South East Asia. It is named for Thomas Horsfield, an American naturalist who presented the type specimen to the British Museum.
Animals of the same family as a Horsfield’s fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Montane monkey-faced bat with a weight of 290 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with a weight of 296 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 122 grams
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 218 grams
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Horsfield’s fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cynopterus horsfieldi:
- Southern red-sided opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Guinea multimammate mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Glacier rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Pel’s pouched bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- East African little collared fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Garlepp’s mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Large vesper mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale