It is hard to guess what a Eastern tube-nosed bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene robinsoni) on average weights 48 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Eastern tube-nosed bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Nyctimene). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.9 cm (0′ 5″). Normally, Eastern tube-nosed 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.
The eastern or Queensland tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene robinsoni) is a megabat in the family Pteropodidae that lives in north-eastern Australia. N. robinsoni is one of the few species in Pteropodidae that roosts solitarily. They get their common name from their raised tubular nostrils which is unlike most other species in the family. They are a deep brown with gray heads and sparse yellow spotting.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern tube-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Masked flying fox with a weight of 130 grams
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 236 grams
- Guam flying fox with a weight of 153 grams
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mariana fruit bat with a weight of 458 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Long-tongued fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern tube-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctimene robinsoni:
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Naked-eared deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- One-striped opossum bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s flying squirrel bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Malayan water shrew bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Greater Wilfred’s mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Shining thicket rat bringing 43 grams to the scale