It is hard to guess what a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) on average weights 33 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Lesser short-nosed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Cynopterus). It is usually born with about 6 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 8 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 28.8 cm (1′ 0″). On average, Lesser short-nosed fruit 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 lesser short-nosed fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) is a species of megabat within the family Pteropodidae. It is a small bat that lives in South and Southeast Asia and Indonesia (Borneo). It weighs between 21 and 32 grams (0.74 and 1.13 oz), and/or 70 to 127 mm. It occurs in many types of habitat, but most frequently in disturbed forest, including lower montane forest and tropical lowland rain forest, plus gardens, mangroves, and vegetation on beaches.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Halmahera blossom bat with a weight of 39 grams
- Dusky fruit bat with a weight of 35 grams
- New Caledonia blossom bat with 1 babies per litter
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Woermann’s bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 68 grams
- Ceram fruit bat with a weight of 228 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 465 grams
- Samoa flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cynopterus brachyotis:
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Large Asian roundleaf bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Elegant water shrew bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- African giant shrew bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Rudd’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat:
- Southeastern pocket gopher
- Sooty mustached bat
- Iberian ibex
- Central American squirrel monkey
- Sunda slow loris
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Long-tailed chinchilla
- De Vis’s woolly rat
- Oecomys concolor
- Jameson’s red rock hare
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Lesser short-nosed fruit bat:
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Eastern pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Cuban solenodon with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Common ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Yellow-bellied marmot with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Crowned lemur with an average maximal age of 9.17 years
- Common kusimanse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Pichi with an average maximal age of 9 years