It is hard to guess what a Aldabra flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Aldabra flying fox (Pteropus aldabrensis) on average weights 309 grams (0.68 lbs).
The Aldabra flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.9 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 Aldabra flying fox (Pteropus aldabrensis) is a species of megabat in the genus Pteropus. It is endemic to the Aldabra Atoll in the Seychelles, like Chaerephon pusilla, though the latter may be the same species as the little free-tailed bat.
Animals of the same family as a Aldabra flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Pteropus temmincki with a weight of 250 grams
- Masked flying fox with a weight of 130 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 121 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 218 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a weight of 74 grams
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Hammer-headed bat with a weight of 336 grams
- Harpy fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Bare-backed rousette with a weight of 92 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Aldabra flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus aldabrensis:
- Armored rat bringing 281 grams to the scale
- Guaira spiny rat bringing 349 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tree-rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Lesser bilby bringing 364 grams to the scale
- Goeldi’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Straw-coloured fruit bat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- Chiapan climbing rat bringing 280 grams to the scale
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 266 grams to the scale