It is hard to guess what a Toltec fruit-eating bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Toltec fruit-eating bat (Artibeus toltecus) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Toltec fruit-eating bat is from the family Phyllostomidae (genus: Artibeus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.5 cm (0′ 3″). Normally, Toltec fruit-eating bats can have babies 2 times a year.
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 Toltec fruit-eating bat (Dermanura tolteca) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is also sometimes called the “lowland fruit eating bat.”
Animals of the same family as a Toltec fruit-eating bat
We found other animals of the Phyllostomidae family:
- Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Dark fruit-eating bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Eldorado broad-nosed bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Lesser spear-nosed bat with a weight of 41 grams
- Gervais’s fruit-eating bat with a weight of 12 grams
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat with a weight of 11 grams
- Southern little yellow-eared bat with a weight of 8 grams
- Handley’s tailless bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Thomas’s nectar bat with a weight of 7 grams
- Leach’s single leaf bat with a weight of 8 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Toltec fruit-eating bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Artibeus toltecus:
- Rock pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Glacier Bay water shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Small vesper mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- True’s shrew mole bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Isabelle’s ghost bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Welwitsch’s bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Northern short-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale