It is hard to guess what a Sulawesi flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sulawesi flying fox (Acerodon celebensis) on average weights 383 grams (0.84 lbs).
The Sulawesi flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Acerodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.1 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 Sulawesi flying fox or Sulawesi fruit bat (Acerodon celebensis) is a species of megabat endemic to Indonesia. It is classified as “Vulnerable” by the IUCN due to unsustainable levels of hunting.
Animals of the same family as a Sulawesi flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Dayak fruit bat with a weight of 81 grams
- Lyle’s flying fox with a weight of 319 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox with a weight of 491 grams
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat with 1 babies per litter
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Aldabra flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 107 grams
- Black-eared flying fox with 1 babies per litter
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sulawesi flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Acerodon celebensis:
- Russian desman bringing 420 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Black-tufted marmoset bringing 340 grams to the scale
- Mexican gray squirrel bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Brown four-eyed opossum bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy bringing 361 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed giant rat bringing 349 grams to the scale
- Big-eared flying fox bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Long-eared hedgehog bringing 332 grams to the scale
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco bringing 385 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Sulawesi flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sulawesi flying fox:
- European ground squirrel with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Calabar angwantibo with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Washington ground squirrel with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Common dwarf mongoose with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Deppe’s squirrel with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red squirrel with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Brazilian squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mexican ground squirrel with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)