It is hard to guess what a Zenker’s fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Zenker’s fruit bat (Scotonycteris zenkeri) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Zenker’s fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Scotonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.6 cm (0′ 10″).
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.
Zenker’s fruit bat (Scotonycteris zenkeri) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, and Nigeria. Its natural habitats are tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat destruction.
Animals of the same family as a Zenker’s fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a weight of 116 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 122 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a weight of 733 grams
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Zenker’s fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Scotonycteris zenkeri:
- Meadow jumping mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- California pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Brazilian arboreal mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed caenolestid bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Western red-backed vole bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Gilbert’s dunnart bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Malagasy mountain mouse bringing 25 grams to the scale