It is hard to guess what a Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat (Paranyctimene raptor) on average weights 24 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Paranyctimene). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.7 cm (0′ 4″). Normally, Lesser tube-nosed fruit bats can have babies 2 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 lesser tube-nosed fruit bat or unstriped tube-nosed bat (Paranyctimene raptor) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Guam flying fox with a weight of 153 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 56 grams
- Pteropus temmincki with a weight of 250 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Pemba flying fox with a weight of 541 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox with a weight of 396 grams
- Big-eared flying fox with a weight of 365 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paranyctimene raptor:
- Woodland vole bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Kultarr bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Pinyon mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Sminthopsis laniger bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Thespian grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Western jumping mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys destructor bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Black bonneted bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- North African gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Lined pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lesser 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 Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat:
- Ghost-faced bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser ranee mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bates’s shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Crowned shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)