How big does a Pallas’s tube-nosed bat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Pallas’s tube-nosed bat (Nyctimene cephalotes) reaches an average size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 44 grams (0.1 lbs). The Pallas’s tube-nosed bat (genus: Nyctimene) is a member of the family Pteropodidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The Pallas’s tube-nosed bat, Torresian tube-nosed bat or northern tube-nosed bat, (Nyctimene cephalotes) is a species of megabat in the Nyctimene genus found in Indonesia. Its range may extend to New Guinea, but sightings may be attributable to misidentification. Its range may at one time also have extended to Timor, but was extirpated due to habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Pallas’s tube-nosed bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Leschenault’s rousette with 1 babies per litter
- Tailless fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Madagascan rousette with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-palated fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Lesser musky fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with 1 babies per litter
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Pallas’s tube-nosed bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pallas’s tube-nosed bat:
- Gansu shrew with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- New Holland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yucatan deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same weight as a Pallas’s tube-nosed bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nyctimene cephalotes:
- Dorothy’s slender opossum bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Rufous elephant shrew bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Four-toed jerboa bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Cape elephant shrew bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed dasyure bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Dusky slender opossum bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Silver mountain vole bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Ega long-tongued bat bringing 49 grams to the scale