It is hard to guess what a Philippine dawn bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Philippine dawn bat (Eonycteris robusta) on average weights 78 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Philippine dawn bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Eonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.5 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 Philippine dawn bat, (Eonycteris robusta), is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in the Philippines.
Animals of the same family as a Philippine dawn bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 236 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox with a weight of 872 grams
- Dayak fruit bat with a weight of 81 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Black-eared flying fox with 1 babies per litter
- Lyle’s flying fox with a weight of 319 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Philippine dawn bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eonycteris robusta:
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- California chipmunk bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Malayan mountain spiny rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Vampyriscus nymphaea bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Cauca climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Southern mole vole bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Plains viscacha rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed mountain rat bringing 79 grams to the scale