It is hard to guess what a Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene vizcaccia) on average weights 41 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Nyctimene). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.3 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 Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat (Nyctimene vizcaccia) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Greater musky fruit bat with a weight of 79 grams
- Long-haired rousette with a weight of 104 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with a weight of 296 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 236 grams
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 68 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 152 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctimene vizcaccia:
- Olive montane mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Himalayan water shrew bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Chestnut tree mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Musso’s fish-eating rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Dryad shrew tenrec bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Pseudoryzomys bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Lesser tree mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Cloud forest grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Umboi 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 Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat:
- Savanna path shrew with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Meadow jumping mouse with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- European free-tailed bat with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arctic shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cape serotine with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)