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Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat size: How big do they get?

How big does a Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:

A grown Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat (Micropteropus pusillus) reaches an average size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″).

When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 25 grams (0.06 lbs). On average, Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bats have offspring about 2 times per year. The Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat (genus: Micropteropus) is a member of the family Pteropodidae.

As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.

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Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat (Micropteropus pusillus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna.

Animals of the same family as a Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat

We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:

Animals with the same size as a Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat

Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat:

Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micropteropus pusillus: