It is hard to guess what a Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia crenulata) on average weights 218 grams (0.48 lbs).
The Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dobsonia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.8 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia crenulata) is a common and widespread species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia. It is assessed as least-concern by the IUCN as it has a wide range and seems to have no significant threats.
Animals of the same family as a Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Dwarf flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 59 grams
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- Hammer-headed bat with a weight of 336 grams
- Long-haired rousette with a weight of 104 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Sulawesi flying fox with a weight of 383 grams
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dobsonia crenulata:
- Anthony’s woodrat bringing 195 grams to the scale
- Little golden-mantled flying fox bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Rodrigues flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel bringing 241 grams to the scale
- Saharan striped polecat bringing 218 grams to the scale
- Afghan pika bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Cape mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Turkish hamster bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat bringing 236 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Halmahera 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 Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat:
- Black rat with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Goldman’s woodrat with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Earless water rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Texas pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Big-eared climbing rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tiny tuco-tuco with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Chacoan tuco-tuco with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)