It is hard to guess what a Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia anderseni) on average weights 233 grams (0.51 lbs).
The Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dobsonia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.6 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat or Andersen’s bare-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia anderseni) is a large cave-dwelling species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Bismarck Archipelago including the Admiralty Islands in Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Seychelles fruit bat with a weight of 491 grams
- Gilliard’s flying fox with a weight of 406 grams
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a weight of 253 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 67 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Indian flying fox with a weight of 822 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 56 grams
- Spectacled flying fox with a weight of 759 grams
- Minute fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dobsonia anderseni:
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco bringing 202 grams to the scale
- Southern spiny pocket mouse bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Richmond’s squirrel bringing 237 grams to the scale
- Big-eared woodrat bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Ashy chinchilla rat bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Lombok flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Mohave ground squirrel bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Tate’s triok bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s guiara bringing 188 grams to the scale
- Mzab gundi bringing 194 grams to the scale