Categories
Animal Weight

How much does a Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat weight?

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 average adult weight of a Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat is 43 grams (0.09 lbs)

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:

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:

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: