It is hard to guess what a Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene aello) on average weights 85 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Nyctimene). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.1 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.
The broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene aello), also known as the greater tube-nosed bat is a species of megabat in the genus Nyctimene. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and central Philippines. In 1912, Andersen distinguished it by its very broad dorsal stripe on the center of its back. Although this species is believed to exist at low densities, the IUCN estimates its population to be stable and has no major threats to its continued existence. The IUCN classifies Nyctimene celaeno Thomas, 1922 as a synonym of this species, however as of 2013 the ITIS lists it as a separate species.
Animals of the same family as a Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Luzon fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Greater nectar bat with a weight of 72 grams
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Minor epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 301 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a weight of 524 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a weight of 733 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctimene aello:
- Gansu pika bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Atherton antechinus bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Biting chinchilla mouse bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Blind mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Taiga vole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Oecomys paricola bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Dibbler bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Ansell’s mole-rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat:
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Silver mountain vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sagebrush vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Incan caenolestid with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little collared fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- South African pouched mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)