It is hard to guess what a Admiralty flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Admiralty flying fox (Pteropus admiralitatum) on average weights 305 grams (0.67 lbs).
The Admiralty flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.9 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Admiralty flying foxs have 1 babies per litter.
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 Admiralty flying fox (Pteropus admiralitatum) is a species of fruit bat in the family Pteropodidae, the megabats. It is found in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Admiralty flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Solomons flying fox with a weight of 661 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a weight of 489 grams
- Moluccan flying fox with a weight of 728 grams
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- Zenker’s fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Sulawesi rousette with a weight of 63 grams
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 59 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Admiralty flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus admiralitatum:
- Eastern woodrat bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Camas pocket gopher bringing 360 grams to the scale
- Speckled spiny tree-rat bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Greater hedgehog tenrec bringing 277 grams to the scale
- Speckled ground squirrel bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Southern African hedgehog bringing 337 grams to the scale
- Emilia’s marmoset bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Golden-backed tree-rat bringing 294 grams to the scale
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Admiralty flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Admiralty flying fox:
- Long-haired rat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common dwarf mongoose with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Steppe pika with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky field rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Highland tuco-tuco with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ruddy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hugh’s hedgehog with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Admiralty flying fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Admiralty flying fox: