It is hard to guess what a Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat (Styloctenium wallacei) on average weights 172 grams (0.38 lbs).
The Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Styloctenium). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.5 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Wallace’s or Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat (Styloctenium wallacei) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Sulawesi and the nearby Togian Islands of Indonesia. Cave paintings resembling these bats have been found in Australia, where bats of this kind are not otherwise known.
Animals of the same family as a Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a weight of 733 grams
- Lesser flying fox with a weight of 296 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat with a weight of 39 grams
- Sulawesi rousette with a weight of 63 grams
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Harpy fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 15 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Styloctenium wallacei:
- Furtive tuco-tuco bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Plateau pika bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Lesser stick-nest rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Lesser mole-rat bringing 188 grams to the scale
- Perote ground squirrel bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat bringing 186 grams to the scale
- Masked white-tailed rat bringing 149 grams to the scale
- Bolivian squirrel bringing 190 grams to the scale
- Cape mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat:
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large tree mouse with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Arianus’s rat with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cerradomys subflavus with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)