It is hard to guess what a Pallas’s tube-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pallas’s tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene cephalotes) on average weights 44 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Pallas’s tube-nosed bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Nyctimene). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 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.
The Pallas’s tube-nosed bat, Torresian tube-nosed bat or northern tube-nosed bat, (Nyctimene cephalotes) is a species of megabat in the Nyctimene genus found in Indonesia. Its range may extend to New Guinea, but sightings may be attributable to misidentification. Its range may at one time also have extended to Timor, but was extirpated due to habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Pallas’s tube-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
- Aldabra flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a weight of 256 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Seychelles fruit bat with a weight of 491 grams
- Long-tailed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
- Dwarf flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern tube-nosed bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pallas’s tube-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctimene cephalotes:
- Shining thicket rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Cuban fruit-eating bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Short-snouted elephant shrew bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Jalapan pine vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum bringing 36 grams to the scale
- European snow vole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Lesser musky fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Paramo hocicudo bringing 41 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pallas’s tube-nosed bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pallas’s tube-nosed bat:
- Greater forest shrew with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gould’s mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Least chipmunk with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Grant’s golden mole with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)