It is hard to guess what a Island tube-nosed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Island tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene major) on average weights 107 grams (0.24 lbs).
The Island tube-nosed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Nyctimene). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.4 cm (0′ 6″).
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 island tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene major) is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon islands.
Animals of the same family as a Island tube-nosed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a weight of 733 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser musky fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 93 grams
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 239 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Island tube-nosed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctimene major:
- Fat sand rat bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Voalavoanala bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Spotted ground squirrel bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Greater spear-nosed bat bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Water vole (North America) bringing 92 grams to the scale
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Bartels’s spiny rat bringing 88 grams to the scale
- Philippine tarsier bringing 116 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Island 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 Island tube-nosed fruit bat:
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Asian house shrew with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)