It is hard to guess what a Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia beauforti) on average weights 165 grams (0.36 lbs).
The Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dobsonia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.1 cm (0′ 7″). Normally, Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bats can have babies 1 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.
Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia beauforti) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.Its natural habitat is in caves.
Animals of the same family as a Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 68 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Dwarf flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 218 grams
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 93 grams
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Solomons flying fox with a weight of 661 grams
- Black flying fox with a weight of 609 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dobsonia beauforti:
- Large New Guinea spiny rat bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Annandale’s rat bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Jungle palm squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Ashy chinchilla rat bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Hinde’s rock rat bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat bringing 196 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Speke’s pectinator bringing 169 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat:
- Perote ground squirrel with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern African vlei rat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Himalayan field rat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Maxomys baeodon with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Robust yellow bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray short-tailed opossum with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)