It is hard to guess what a Ashy-headed flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ashy-headed flying fox (Pteropus caniceps) on average weights 524 grams (1.16 lbs).
The Ashy-headed flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.6 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 ashy-headed flying fox or North Moluccan flying fox (Pteropus caniceps) is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia.
Animals of the same family as a Ashy-headed flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Aldabra flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
- Pohle’s fruit bat with a weight of 69 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-haired rousette with a weight of 104 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 218 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Dayak fruit bat with a weight of 81 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox with a weight of 491 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ashy-headed flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus caniceps:
- Squirrel-toothed rat bringing 511 grams to the scale
- Maués marmoset bringing 443 grams to the scale
- Franklin’s ground squirrel bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Black-mantled tamarin bringing 450 grams to the scale
- Black flying fox bringing 609 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Allegheny woodrat bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Cape ground squirrel bringing 572 grams to the scale
- Lutrine opossum bringing 556 grams to the scale
- California ground squirrel bringing 598 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ashy-headed flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ashy-headed flying fox:
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 22.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Summit rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common gundi with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Eastern rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern mountain cavy with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mindanao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)