It is hard to guess what a Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi) on average weights 93 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Epomophorus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.1 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bats can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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.
Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is commonly found across southern Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- White-winged flying fox with a weight of 343 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
- White-collared fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 200 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a weight of 351 grams
- Lesser musky fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same weight as a Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Epomophorus wahlbergi:
- Gray short-tailed opossum bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Yellow-haired hill rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Greater musky fruit bat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Golden Oldfield mouse bringing 88 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Southern climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Beady-eyed mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Buller’s chipmunk bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Big-eared kangaroo rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat:
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sonoma chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coast mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern bog lemming with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Junin slender opossum with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn antechinus with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- One-striped opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat: