It is hard to guess what a Pygmy fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pygmy fruit bat (Aethalops alecto) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Pygmy fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Aethalops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 34 cm (1′ 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 pygmy fruit bat (Aethalops alecto), also known as the grey fruit bat, is a species of megabat.
Animals of the same family as a Pygmy fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pemba flying fox with a weight of 541 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Black-capped fruit bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Woermann’s bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
- Comoro rousette with a weight of 45 grams
- White-collared fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Aethalops alecto:
- Rufous horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Ussuri shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- European pine vole bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Gould’s wattled bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- African smoky mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Delicate vesper mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Southern yellow bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Silky short-tailed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Brown tent-making bat bringing 17 grams to the scale