It is hard to guess what a Short-palated fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Short-palated fruit bat (Casinycteris argynnis) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Short-palated fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Casinycteris). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6 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 short-palated fruit bat (Casinycteris argynnis) is a species of frugivorous megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, and Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Births occur in May.
Animals of the same family as a Short-palated fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 121 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a weight of 524 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a weight of 253 grams
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat with 1 babies per litter
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Short-palated fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Casinycteris argynnis:
- Forest dormouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Bolivian vesper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Schreber’s yellow bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Bastard big-footed mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Forrest’s mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Yellow-necked mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Eastern pygmy possum bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys arenalis bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Woodland vole bringing 26 grams to the scale