It is hard to guess what a New Britain naked-backed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult New Britain naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia praedatrix) on average weights 179 grams (0.39 lbs).
The New Britain naked-backed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dobsonia). It is usually born with about 32 grams (0.07 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.1 cm (0′ 7″). On average, New Britain naked-backed fruit bats can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 New Britain naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia praedatrix) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to New Britain island in northern Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Little golden-mantled flying fox with a weight of 184 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a weight of 351 grams
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 67 grams
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- White-collared fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Spectacled flying fox with a weight of 759 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox with a weight of 491 grams
- Insular flying fox with a weight of 560 grams
- Mauritian flying fox with a weight of 473 grams
Animals with the same weight as a New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dobsonia praedatrix:
- Rajah spiny rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Alpine pika bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s ground squirrel bringing 207 grams to the scale
- Pygmy ringtail possum bringing 152 grams to the scale
- Nicobar treeshrew bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Anthony’s woodrat bringing 195 grams to the scale
- White-footed rabbit-rat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Silvery mole-rat bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Northern treeshrew bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Four-toed elephant shrew bringing 201 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as New Britain naked-backed fruit bat:
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guam flying fox with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Alpine pika with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Collared tuco-tuco with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern marsupial mole with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Earless water rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a New Britain naked-backed fruit bat: