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How much does a Thomas’s fruit-eating bat weight?

It is hard to guess what a Thomas’s fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:

An adult Thomas’s fruit-eating bat (Artibeus watsoni) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).

The Thomas’s fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Thomas’s 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.

Thomas’s fruit-eating bat (Dermanura watsoni), sometimes also popularly called Watson’s fruit-eating bat, is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia. Its South American range is to the west of the Andes. The species name is in honor of H. J. Watson, a plantation owner in western Panama who used to send specimens to the British Natural History Museum, where Oldfield Thomas would often describe them.

Animals of the same family as a Thomas’s fruit-eating bat

We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:

Animals with the same weight as a Thomas’s fruit-eating bat

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus watsoni:

Animals with the same litter size as a Thomas’s fruit-eating bat

Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Thomas’s fruit-eating bat: