It is hard to guess what a Tailless fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tailless fruit bat (Megaerops ecaudatus) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Tailless fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Megaerops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.3 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 tailless fruit bat (Megaerops ecaudatus) is a species of fruit bat in the family Pteropodidae.
Animals of the same family as a Tailless fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Dayak fruit bat with a weight of 81 grams
- New Caledonia blossom bat with 1 babies per litter
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox bringing 1.09 kilos (2.4 lbs) to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Dwarf flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tailless fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Megaerops ecaudatus:
- Wagner’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Kultarr bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed gerbil bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Akodon spegazzinii bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Greater red musk shrew bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Koford’s grass mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Serra do Mar grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale