It is hard to guess what a Lesser musky fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser musky fruit bat (Ptenochirus minor) on average weights 47 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Lesser musky fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Ptenochirus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″).
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 lesser musky fruit bat (Ptenochirus minor) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser musky fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Sulawesi flying fox with a weight of 383 grams
- Lyle’s flying fox with a weight of 319 grams
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Temotu flying fox with a weight of 274 grams
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox bringing 1.09 kilos (2.4 lbs) to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 59 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 132 grams
- Ornate flying fox with a weight of 335 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser musky fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ptenochirus minor:
- Panamint chipmunk bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed jird bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Mozambique thicket rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s flying squirrel bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Rock dormouse bringing 46 grams to the scale