It is hard to guess what a Small flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Small flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) on average weights 434 grams (0.96 lbs).
The Small flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.4 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Small flying foxs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 small flying fox, island flying fox or variable flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Animals of the same family as a Small flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Mariana fruit bat with a weight of 458 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 122 grams
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 301 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
- Insular flying fox with a weight of 560 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 218 grams
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temotu flying fox with a weight of 274 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Small flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus hypomelanus:
- Striped possum bringing 413 grams to the scale
- Sunda flying fox bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 398 grams to the scale
- Golden bandicoot bringing 425 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tamarin bringing 493 grams to the scale
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni bringing 422 grams to the scale
- Pygmy spotted skunk bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Columbian ground squirrel bringing 471 grams to the scale
- European ground squirrel bringing 396 grams to the scale
- Bolivian tuco-tuco bringing 462 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Small flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Small flying fox:
- Lowland ringtail possum with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ornate flying fox with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Luzon broad-toothed rat with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Small flying fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Small flying fox: