It is hard to guess what a Western naked-backed fruit bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia peroni) on average weights 226 grams (0.5 lbs).
The Western naked-backed fruit bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Dobsonia). It is usually born with about 53 grams (0.12 lbs). 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 western naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia peronii) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Western naked-backed fruit bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Cave nectar bat with a weight of 58 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a weight of 74 grams
- Indian flying fox with a weight of 822 grams
- Comoro rousette with a weight of 45 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
- Woermann’s bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 59 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Western naked-backed fruit bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dobsonia peroni:
- Straw-coloured fruit bat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed weasel bringing 191 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco bringing 212 grams to the scale
- Amazon weasel bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Northeast African mole-rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Little golden-mantled flying fox bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s hedgehog bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Mohave ground squirrel bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Ochre mole-rat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Saharan striped polecat bringing 218 grams to the scale