It is hard to guess what a Woodford’s fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woodford’s fruit bat (Melonycteris woodfordi) on average weights 36 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Woodford’s fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Melonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.9 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:
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 132 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 67 grams
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 165 grams
- Little red flying fox with a weight of 379 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with a weight of 84 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 43 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 woodfordi:
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Jamaican fruit bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Hispid hocicudo bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian gerbil bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Woodland thicket rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Brown antechinus bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Greater false vampire bat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Mexican water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Halmahera blossom bat bringing 39 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:
- Delicate slender opossum with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forest dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern grasshopper mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nubra pika with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Slender harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Santa Cruz mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)