It is hard to guess what a Peters’s epauletted fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Peters’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus crypturus) on average weights 95 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Peters’s epauletted fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Epomophorus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.7 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Peters’s epauletted fruit bats can have babies 1 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.
The Peters’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus crypturus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is in riverine or evergreen forest, or moist woodland, where there are fruit-bearing trees.
Animals of the same family as a Peters’s epauletted fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a weight of 351 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox with a weight of 491 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 165 grams
- Samoa flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat with a weight of 39 grams
- Mauritian flying fox with a weight of 473 grams
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 152 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s epauletted fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Epomophorus crypturus:
- Southern climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Voalavoanala bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Beady-eyed mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Red rock rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Long-haired rousette bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Green bush squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Harrington’s rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Hero shrew bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 78 grams to the scale