It is hard to guess what a Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene malaitensis) on average weights 78 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Nyctimene). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.9 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene malaitensis) is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic only to the islands of Malaita and Makira (formerly known as San Cristóbal) in the Solomon Islands. The species occurs in primary tropical moist forest.
Animals of the same family as a Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Spectacled flying fox with a weight of 759 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Rodrigues flying fox with a weight of 256 grams
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a weight of 256 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 121 grams
- Mariana fruit bat with a weight of 458 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctimene malaitensis:
- Atherton antechinus bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Cape York melomys bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Central American dwarf squirrel bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Balkan mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Oecomys paricola bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Sundevall’s jird bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Cinnamon antechinus bringing 71 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Malaita 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 Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat:
- Forest dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-footed vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut tree mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Silver mountain vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)