It is hard to guess what a Woodford’s fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woodford’s fruit bat (Melonycteris aurantius) on average weights 30 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Woodford’s fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Melonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.2 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Woodford’s fruit bat (Melonycteris woodfordi), also known as the orange fruit bat, is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Woodford’s fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Harpy fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 59 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 218 grams
- Black-eared flying fox with 1 babies per litter
- Lesser flying fox with a weight of 296 grams
- New Caledonia blossom bat with 1 babies per litter
- Montane monkey-faced bat with a weight of 290 grams
- Ceram fruit bat with a weight of 228 grams
- Little golden-mantled flying fox with a weight of 184 grams
- Comoro rousette with a weight of 45 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Woodford’s fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melonycteris aurantius:
- Bibimys chacoensis bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Brazilian gracile opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Dickey’s deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s gerbil bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Deroo’s mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Fringe-lipped bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Least gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Barbary striped grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster bringing 27 grams to the scale
- European free-tailed bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Woodford’s fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Woodford’s fruit bat:
- Crowned shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cuban fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aberdare mole shrew with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Burt’s deer mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malagasy serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Steppe mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chestnut dunnart with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)