It is hard to guess what a Spotted-winged fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Spotted-winged fruit bat (Balionycteris maculata) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Spotted-winged fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Balionycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4 cm (0′ 2″). Usually, Spotted-winged 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 spotted-winged fruit bat, (Balionycteris maculata) is the smallest megabat in the world, and the only species in the genus Balionycteris. It inhabits forests in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Spotted-winged fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 132 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 67 grams
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a weight of 256 grams
- Dusky fruit bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat with a weight of 32 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Spotted-winged fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Balionycteris maculata:
- Flat-skulled shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Taiva shrew tenrec bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Botta’s serotine bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Lesser noctule bringing 12 grams to the scale
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lesser red musk shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Chinese shrew mole bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Bokhara horseshoe bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Velvety fruit-eating bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Spotted-winged fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Spotted-winged fruit bat: