It is hard to guess what a Silver fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Silver fruit-eating bat (Artibeus glaucus) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Silver fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 69.2 cm (2′ 4″). Usually, Silver fruit-eating 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 silver fruit-eating bat (Dermanura glauca) is a South American bat species of the family Phyllostomidae.
Animals of the same family as a Silver fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Schmidts’s big-eared bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Greater round-eared bat with a weight of 27 grams
- White-throated round-eared bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Guianan spear-nosed bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Leach’s single leaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Dark fruit-eating bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a weight of 19 grams
- Thomas’s nectar bat with a weight of 7 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Silver fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus glaucus:
- Montane white-toothed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Acuminate horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Little free-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Wandering small-eared shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Mediterranean water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys altissimus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Brants’s climbing mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Glacier Bay water shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Silver fruit-eating bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Silver fruit-eating bat: