It is hard to guess what a White-collared fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-collared fruit bat (Megaerops wetmorei) on average weights 18 grams (0.04 lbs).
The White-collared 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 white-collared fruit bat (Megaerops wetmorei) is a species of megabat found in Southeast Asia.
Animals of the same family as a White-collared fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a weight of 256 grams
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox with a weight of 396 grams
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a weight of 253 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Lesser flying fox with a weight of 296 grams
- Small flying fox with a weight of 434 grams
- Lombok flying fox with a weight of 256 grams
- Minute fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat with a weight of 172 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-collared fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Megaerops wetmorei:
- Krebs’s fat mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Black-capped fruit bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Brown flower bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Lesser red musk shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Monte gerbil mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s nectar bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Aztec fruit-eating bat bringing 20 grams to the scale