It is hard to guess what a Lesser naked-backed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia minor) on average weights 85 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Lesser naked-backed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dobsonia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.4 cm (0′ 7″). Normally, Lesser naked-backed fruit bats can have babies 2 times a year.
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.
The lesser naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia minor) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser naked-backed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a weight of 351 grams
- Samoa flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
- Big-eared flying fox with a weight of 365 grams
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a weight of 253 grams
- Long-tailed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox bringing 1.09 kilos (2.4 lbs) to the scale
- Aldabra flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
- Ceram fruit bat with a weight of 228 grams
- Short-palated fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser naked-backed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dobsonia minor:
- Red hocicudo bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Libyan jird bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Goliath shrew bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Ansell’s mole-rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Oecomys rex bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Burrowing chinchilla mouse bringing 83 grams to the scale