How big does a Swift fruit bat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Swift fruit bat (Thoopterus nigrescens) reaches an average size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 66 grams (0.15 lbs). The Swift fruit bat (genus: Thoopterus) 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.
The swift fruit bat (Thoopterus nigrescens) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is the only described species within the genus Thoopterus, but it is likely that more than one species exists. Thoopterus is found in Indonesia on Sulawesi and neighboring islands.
Animals of the same family as a Swift fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Solomons flying fox with a size of 25.6 cm (0′ 11″)
- Sulawesi flying fox with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pteropus brunneus with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-haired rousette with a weight of 104 grams
Animals with the same size as a Swift fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Swift fruit bat:
- Serra do Mar grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Transandinomys bolivaris with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sclater’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Swift fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thoopterus nigrescens:
- African wading rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Peters’s striped mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Gray slender opossum bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Oreoryzomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys russatus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Julia Creek dunnart bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Fringed fruit-eating bat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Zambian mole-rat bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 68 grams to the scale