It is hard to guess what a Little collared fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little collared fruit bat (Myonycteris torquata) on average weights 44 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Little collared fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Myonycteris). It is usually born with about 11 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Little collared 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 little collared fruit bat (Myonycteris torquata) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Little collared fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Little red flying fox with a weight of 379 grams
- Black flying fox with a weight of 609 grams
- Luzon fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Zenker’s fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Comoro rousette with a weight of 45 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox with a weight of 396 grams
- Minute fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Greater musky fruit bat with a weight of 79 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 134 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Little collared fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myonycteris torquata:
- Large myotis bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Ammodile bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Cerradomys subflavus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Elegant water shrew bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Paramo hocicudo bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Greater bulldog bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Ega long-tongued bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Little collared fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Little collared fruit bat:
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan field mouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Julia Creek dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser tree mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Little collared fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Little collared fruit bat: