It is hard to guess what a Biak naked-backed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Biak naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia emersa) on average weights 200 grams (0.44 lbs).
The Biak naked-backed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dobsonia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.4 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Biak naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia emersa) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia.
Animals of the same family as a Biak naked-backed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat with 1 babies per litter
- Lesser musky fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 122 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Luzon fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Biak naked-backed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dobsonia emersa:
- Peters’s climbing rat bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed antsangy bringing 219 grams to the scale
- Siberian zokor bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Richmond’s squirrel bringing 237 grams to the scale
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Island mouse bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket gopher bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Mottled tuco-tuco bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Dusky bushbaby bringing 213 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Biak 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 Biak naked-backed fruit bat:
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gaoligong pika with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)