It is hard to guess what a Common tube-nosed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene albiventer) on average weights 29 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Common tube-nosed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Nyctimene). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.2 cm (0′ 4″). Normally, Common tube-nosed fruit bats can have babies 2 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.
The common tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene albiventer) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found at islands north of Australia, and in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines and the Solomon Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Common tube-nosed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 179 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Cave nectar bat with a weight of 58 grams
- Guam flying fox with a weight of 153 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with a weight of 296 grams
- Temotu flying fox with a weight of 274 grams
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 43 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Common tube-nosed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctimene albiventer:
- Abrothrix lanosus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- White-tailed dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Greater mouse-tailed bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Woolly horseshoe bat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Tonatia silvicola bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Mexican vole bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Flat-haired mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Common 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 Common tube-nosed fruit bat:
- Ammodile with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Usambara shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common vampire bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)