It is hard to guess what a Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene certans) on average weights 43 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Nyctimene). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.6 cm (0′ 4″).
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 mountain tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene certans) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.It is endemic to New Guinea island within Papua New Guinea (nation) and Western New Guinea of Indonesia; and to New Britain Island of Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Little collared fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a weight of 253 grams
- Masked flying fox with a weight of 130 grams
- Temotu flying fox with a weight of 274 grams
- Large flying fox bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Minute fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Lyle’s flying fox with a weight of 319 grams
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 165 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox with a weight of 396 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctimene certans:
- Western mastiff bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Perote mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
- False water rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Macroscelides proboscideus bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Robbins’s tateril bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Sepia short-tailed opossum bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Naked-eared deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mountain 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 Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat:
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Usambara shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese mole shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern short-tailed shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern hopping mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)