It is hard to guess what a Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene draconilla) on average weights 30 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Nyctimene). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11 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 dragon tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene draconilla) is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found on both sides of New Guinea: West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is slightly smaller and very similar in appearance to N. albiventer, differing by having more profuse, dark spotting on its wing membranes, and smaller shorter canines. The similarity between the species has been a source of possible misidentifications. The records of this species from Papua New Guinea are associated with freshwater swamps and rivers.
Animals of the same family as a Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Pohle’s fruit bat with a weight of 69 grams
- Pteropus brunneus with a weight of 200 grams
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- Small flying fox with a weight of 434 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctimene draconilla:
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Akodon spegazzinii bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Narrow-headed slender opossum bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Short-haired water rat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Delectable soft-furred mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dragon 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 Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat:
- Andean caenolestid with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tarabundí vole with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)