It is hard to guess what a Panniet naked-backed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Panniet naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia pannietensis) on average weights 239 grams (0.53 lbs).
The Panniet naked-backed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dobsonia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.6 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Panniet naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia pannietensis), also known as the De Vis’s Bare-backed Fruit Bat and Panaeati Bare-backed Fruit Bat, is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae.It roosts in groups, within caves and tree hollows.
Animals of the same family as a Panniet naked-backed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
- Luzon fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Cave nectar bat with a weight of 58 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 67 grams
- Swift fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Mariana fruit bat with a weight of 458 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 236 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Panniet naked-backed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dobsonia pannietensis:
- Turkish hamster bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Greedy olalla rat bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 278 grams to the scale
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel bringing 241 grams to the scale
- Robust tuco-tuco bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Moon-toothed degu bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Fire-footed rope squirrel bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 267 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed woodrat bringing 286 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Panniet 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 Panniet naked-backed fruit bat:
- Gray tree rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large vlei rat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy marmoset with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lowland brush mouse with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Siberian flying squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Australian swamp rat with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)