It is hard to guess what a Pohle’s fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pohle’s fruit bat (Scotonycteris ophiodon) on average weights 69 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Pohle’s fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Scotonycteris). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.6 cm (0′ 10″).
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.
Pohle’s fruit bat (Casinycteris ophiodon) is a near threatened species of megabat found in the subtropical or tropical forests of Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Liberia.
Animals of the same family as a Pohle’s fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Tailless fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a weight of 733 grams
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Big-eared flying fox with a weight of 365 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a weight of 489 grams
- Pemba flying fox with a weight of 541 grams
- Cave nectar bat with a weight of 58 grams
- Little red flying fox with a weight of 379 grams
- Gilliard’s flying fox with a weight of 406 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pohle’s fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Scotonycteris ophiodon:
- Oryzomys couesi bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Arianus’s rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Boehm’s bush squirrel bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Acacia rat bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Eastern chestnut mouse bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Gansu pika bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Argentine hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Siskiyou chipmunk bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Great fruit-eating bat bringing 59 grams to the scale