It is hard to guess what a Madagascan fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Madagascan fruit bat (Eidolon dupreanum) on average weights 296 grams (0.65 lbs).
The Madagascan fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Eidolon). It is usually born with about 50 grams (0.11 lbs). They can live for up to 20 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.2 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Madagascan fruit bats can have babies 1 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 Madagascan fruit bat (Eidolon dupreanum) is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Madagascar and is listed as “Vulnerable” by the IUCN because it is hunted as bushmeat.
Animals of the same family as a Madagascan fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Madagascan flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Dusky fruit bat with a weight of 35 grams
- White-winged flying fox with a weight of 343 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Tailless fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- Lombok flying fox with a weight of 256 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Madagascan fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eidolon dupreanum:
- Pacific spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Barbary ground squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Geelvink Bay flying fox bringing 351 grams to the scale
- Brown rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Vogelkop ringtail possum bringing 255 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Luzon broad-toothed rat bringing 268 grams to the scale
- O’Connell’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Minca spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Madagascan fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Madagascan fruit bat:
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Speckled dasyure with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yucatan squirrel with a size of 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Javanese flying squirrel with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Reddish tuco-tuco with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Guinea waterside rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black-striped squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Madagascan fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Madagascan fruit bat:
- Madagascan rousette
- Crested mona monkey
- Jamaican fruit bat
- Tana River red colobus
- Australian sea lion
- Greater spot-nosed monkey
- Mexican gray squirrel
- African palm civet
- Antarctic fur seal
- Hamadryas baboon
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Madagascan fruit bat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Madagascan fruit bat:
- Eastern grey kangaroo with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Servaline genet with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Dorcas gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.42 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Golden jackal with an average maximal age of 16 years
- West Caucasian tur with an average maximal age of 20.5 years
- Bechstein’s bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Bighorn sheep with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Lesser kudu with an average maximal age of 18.92 years
- Commerson’s dolphin with an average maximal age of 18 years