It is hard to guess what a Woermann’s bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woermann’s bat (Megaloglossus woermanni) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Woermann’s bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Megaloglossus). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4 cm (0′ 2″). On average, Woermann’s 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.
Woermann’s bat or Woermann’s fruit bat (Megaloglossus woermanni) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is monotypic within the genus Megaloglossus. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Woermann’s bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- New Caledonia blossom bat with 1 babies per litter
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 152 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with a weight of 573 grams
- Gray flying fox with a weight of 90 grams
- Mariana fruit bat with a weight of 458 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Woermann’s bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Megaloglossus woermanni:
- Heller’s broad-nosed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Northern three-striped opossum bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Pale kangaroo mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed dunnart bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Northern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- House mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Woermann’s bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Woermann’s bat:
- Proboscis bat with a size of 4.2 cm (0′ 2″)
- Wagner’s mustached bat with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rufous trident bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Grey long-eared bat with a size of 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine with a size of 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Desert pocket mouse with a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Woermann’s bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Woermann’s bat: