It is hard to guess what a Minute fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Minute fruit bat (Cynopterus minutus) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Minute fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Cynopterus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 64.7 cm (2′ 2″).
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 minute fruit bat (Cynopterus minutus) is a species of megabat within the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Sulawesi.
Animals of the same family as a Minute fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 165 grams
- White-collared fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Lesser musky fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Ceram fruit bat with a weight of 228 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Short-palated fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Minute fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cynopterus minutus:
- Sagebrush vole bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Flat-haired mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Dickey’s deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Lesser bulldog bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Zenker’s fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Stripe-faced dunnart bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Akodon budini bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Common vole bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale