It is hard to guess what a Moss-forest blossom bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Moss-forest blossom bat (Syconycteris hobbit) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Moss-forest blossom bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Syconycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.9 cm (0′ 3″).
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 moss-forest blossom bat (Syconycteris hobbit) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.Originally discovered in New Guinea 1911, the moss-forest blossom bat was later discovered in Habema, Tembagapura-Timika, and Lian Jaya, and Indonesia in 1982 by Ziegler. Ziegler described Hobbit on the basis of an adult and subadult gathered from Marobe Province, Papau New Guinea 7’31” S 146’40’ E at an elevation of 2400 m above sea level. In 1990 another was found from high altitude of Forfes near the summit of Mt Kaindi, Marobe Province.The Moss-forest blossom bat is characterized by dark greyish-brown fur dorsally, darkest on its head and nape, with a paler anterior back laterally a much paler posterior. Irian Jayan bats have dense velvet fur all over their dorsum, but less on venter. Shortest on the front and sides of the head. They possess rusty brown forearms and flanks down to the hind legs. In many cases the rump is fainty, light brown, and a whitish suffusion on the medio-ventral parts of the body. Tembagapura-Timika bats are lighter than their relatives in the Habema Highlands.Tambagapura Timika bats average 18 g. The average weight of Irian Jayan is considerably heavier than the New Guinea variant, where adults average 15.7 g. Irian Jaya bats have slightly larger skulls and teeth.
Animals of the same family as a Moss-forest blossom bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Aldabra flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
- Hammer-headed bat with a weight of 336 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with a weight of 84 grams
- Pteropus temmincki with a weight of 250 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 152 grams
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 107 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Madagascan flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat with a weight of 32 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Moss-forest blossom bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Syconycteris hobbit:
- Lakeland Downs mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Ghost-faced bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Van Gelder’s bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Harlequin bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Schultz’s round-eared bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Mediterranean pine vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Moss-forest blossom bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Moss-forest blossom bat:
- Bates’s shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern pygmy mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Delicate vesper mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern pygmy mouse with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Shinto shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)