It is hard to guess what a Livingstone’s fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Livingstone’s fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii) on average weights 733 grams (1.62 lbs).
The Livingstone’s fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). It is usually born with about 137 grams (0.3 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 34 cm (1′ 2″). Usually, Livingstone’s fruit bats have 1 babies per litter.
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.
Livingstone’s fruit bat (Pteropus livingstonii), also called the Comoro flying fox, is a megabat in the genus Pteropus. It is an Old World fruit bat found only in the Anjouan and Mohéli islands in the Union of the Comoros in the western Indian Ocean.It is the largest and rarest bat of all Comorian species. Its preferred habitat is montane forest above 200 metres on Mohéli and above 500 metres on Anjouan, the destruction of which is a major threat to the bat population. As of 2003, the total population was estimated at 1,200 individuals. Other threats to the bats’ survival include storms, hunting, and their struggles to readapt to new habitats.The black-bearded flying fox is believed to be one of the closest relatives of Livingstone’s fruit bats, but experts differ as to whether or not these species belong to the same species group. No subspecies have been recognized.
Animals of the same family as a Livingstone’s fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 122 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox with a weight of 396 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Large flying fox bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 239 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat with a weight of 39 grams
- Dayak fruit bat with a weight of 81 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with a weight of 296 grams
- Minute fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Livingstone’s fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus livingstonii:
- Weasel sportive lemur bringing 670 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed ground squirrel bringing 743 grams to the scale
- Mottle-faced tamarin bringing 803 grams to the scale
- Rock squirrel bringing 715 grams to the scale
- Meerkat bringing 730 grams to the scale
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 665 grams to the scale
- Bulmer’s fruit bat bringing 621 grams to the scale
- Guinea pig bringing 728 grams to the scale
- Travancore flying squirrel bringing 794 grams to the scale
- Black and red bush squirrel bringing 692 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Livingstone’s fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Livingstone’s fruit bat:
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Pichi with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Northern viscacha with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Short-beaked echidna with a size of 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a size of 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Chinese ferret-badger with a size of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine with a size of 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Livingstone’s fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Livingstone’s fruit bat: