It is hard to guess what a Large fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Large fruit-eating bat (Artibeus amplus) on average weights 61 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Large fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 69.2 cm (2′ 4″).
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 large fruit-eating bat (Artibeus amplus) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in the South American neotropics, specifically in the countries of Colombia, Guyana, and Venezuela. The large fruit-eating bat is one of only a few microbats that engages in the eating of leaves (a behavior seen mostly in megabats).
Animals of the same family as a Large fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Melissa’s yellow-eared bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Tailed tailless bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Lesser long-nosed bat with a weight of 22 grams
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat with a weight of 10 grams
- Miller’s long-tongued bat with a weight of 13 grams
- Honduran white bat with a weight of 5 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Large fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus amplus:
- Gould’s mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed gymnure bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Dark-tailed tree rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- California vole bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Angular hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Polynesian rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Southern flying squirrel bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed fruit bat bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Uinta chipmunk bringing 51 grams to the scale