It is hard to guess what a Red fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red fruit bat (Stenoderma rufum) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Red fruit bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Stenoderma). It is usually born with about 7 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.1 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Red fruit bats have 1 babies per litter.
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 red fruit bat or red fig-eating bat (Stenoderma rufum) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae, in the monotypic genus Stenoderma. It is found in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Red fruit bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Little white-shouldered bat with a weight of 10 grams
- MacConnell’s bat with a weight of 6 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Western long-tongued bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Dark fruit-eating bat with a weight of 35 grams
- White-winged vampire bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Micronycteris sylvestris with a weight of 8 grams
- Wrinkle-faced bat with a weight of 23 grams
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Stenoderma rufum:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Grey-bellied dunnart bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys andinus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Savi’s pine vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys griseolus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- True’s vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Gerbil mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Southern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Neacomys tenuipes bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red fruit bat:
- Silky pocket mouse with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little brown bat with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian tomb bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Moupin pika with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Paratriaenops furculus with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Johnston’s forest shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Red fruit bat: