It is hard to guess what a White-winged flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-winged flying fox (Pteropus leucopterus) on average weights 343 grams (0.76 lbs).
The White-winged flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.4 cm (0′ 9″).
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 white-winged flying fox (Desmalopex leucopterus), also known as the mottle-winged flying fox is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae. They are endemic to the Philippines. Their natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. They are threatened by habitat loss. In 2008, Giannini et al. revived the genus Desmalopex and placed D. leucopterus in it.
Animals of the same family as a White-winged flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Woermann’s bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 56 grams
- Ornate flying fox with a weight of 335 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Mauritian flying fox with a weight of 473 grams
- Little collared fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-winged flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus leucopterus:
- Golden-mantled tamarin bringing 385 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tree-rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Bunker’s woodrat bringing 375 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Borneo black-banded squirrel bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Bower’s white-toothed rat bringing 355 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Emperor tamarin bringing 409 grams to the scale