It is hard to guess what a New Caledonia flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult New Caledonia flying fox (Pteropus vetulus) on average weights 151 grams (0.33 lbs).
The New Caledonia flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.5 cm (0′ 6″).
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 New Caledonia flying fox (Pteropus vetulus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. The habitat of the species is highly fragmented, and possibly decreasing due to deforestation. Other threats such as hunting are as yet unquantified.
Animals of the same family as a New Caledonia flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- White-collared fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 56 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Long-tongued fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 134 grams
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a weight of 733 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 152 grams
Animals with the same weight as a New Caledonia flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus vetulus:
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Bridges’s degu bringing 162 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed tree rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Allen’s cotton rat bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Bolivian chinchilla rat bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 167 grams to the scale
- Small sun squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Mexican ground squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Three-striped ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a New Caledonia flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as New Caledonia flying fox:
- San Quintin kangaroo rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Durango chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Feather-tailed possum with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mohave ground squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-eared chipmunk with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)