It is hard to guess what a Greenish naked-backed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greenish naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia viridis) on average weights 236 grams (0.52 lbs).
The Greenish naked-backed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dobsonia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 greenish naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia viridis) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.
Animals of the same family as a Greenish naked-backed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Eastern tube-nosed bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Gray flying fox with a weight of 90 grams
- New Caledonia flying fox with a weight of 151 grams
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 41 grams
- Short-palated fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Ornate flying fox with a weight of 335 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with a weight of 84 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greenish naked-backed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dobsonia viridis:
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s ground squirrel bringing 207 grams to the scale
- Tamaulipan woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Long-haired rat bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Cape mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s pocket gopher bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Mohol bushbaby bringing 193 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antsangy bringing 205 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greenish 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 Greenish naked-backed fruit bat:
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland dormouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Jamaican fruit bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiga shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Akodon spegazzinii with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)