It is hard to guess what a Minor epauletted fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Minor epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus minor) on average weights 44 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Minor epauletted fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Epomophorus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 cm (0′ 3″).
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 minor epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus minor) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Kenya.
Animals of the same family as a Minor epauletted fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Hammer-headed bat with a weight of 336 grams
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- Madagascan flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a weight of 524 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with a weight of 84 grams
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 200 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Minor epauletted fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Epomophorus minor:
- Ivory Coast rat bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori thicket rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Painted big-eared mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Günther’s vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Greater false vampire bat bringing 39 grams to the scale