It is hard to guess what a Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat (Micropteropus pusillus) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Micropteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bats can have babies 2 times a year.
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.
Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat (Micropteropus pusillus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a weight of 489 grams
- Black-capped fruit bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Spectacled flying fox with a weight of 759 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 152 grams
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micropteropus pusillus:
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Parantechinus bilarni bringing 23 grams to the scale
- True’s vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Wood mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Yellow-winged bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-nosed bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Silky mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat:
- Serotine bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bates’s shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Yellow-winged bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern short-tailed shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese dormouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Shinto shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cozumel harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Temminck’s mouse with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)