It is hard to guess what a Pygmy fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pygmy fruit-eating bat (Artibeus phaeotis) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Pygmy fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.5 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Pygmy fruit-eating 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.
The pygmy fruit-eating bat (Dermanura phaeotis) is a bat of the family Phyllostomidae. The specific name phaeotis is of Greek derivation, coming from the word phaios meaning dusky, referring to their dusky gray coloration.
Animals of the same family as a Pygmy fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Highland yellow-shouldered bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Buffy broad-nosed bat with a weight of 50 grams
- Tonatia brasiliense with a weight of 9 grams
- Thomas’s nectar bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Gray short-tailed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Common vampire bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a weight of 37 grams
- Tomes’s sword-nosed bat with a weight of 15 grams
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus phaeotis:
- Variegated butterfly bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Egyptian slit-faced bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Molossops planirostris bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Usambara shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Glen’s wattled bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys altissimus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Andean small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Fulvous harvest mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pygmy fruit-eating bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pygmy fruit-eating bat:
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saharan shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wagner’s mustached bat with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Trowbridge’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)