It is hard to guess what a Horsfield’s fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Horsfield’s fruit bat (Cynopterus horsfieldii) on average weights 56 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Horsfield’s fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Cynopterus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 64.7 cm (2′ 2″).
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:
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Large flying fox bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
- Spectacled flying fox with a weight of 759 grams
- Zenker’s fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- New Caledonia blossom bat with 1 babies per litter
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Dusky fruit bat with a weight of 35 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 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 horsfieldii:
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Mindomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Antillean fruit-eating bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Oecomys concolor bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Gray slender opossum bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi rousette bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Yellow-bellied climbing mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 55 grams to the scale