It is hard to guess what a Banks flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Banks flying fox (Pteropus fundatus) on average weights 210 grams (0.46 lbs).
The Banks flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.7 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 Banks flying fox (Pteropus fundatus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Vanuatu. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. These small fruit bats are about 15 cm. long with grey and brown on its head and back with a yellow-orange neck and yellow-gray bellies. Its diet consists of coconut flowers and Vaveli trees fruit since its home is tropical.
Animals of the same family as a Banks flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- Solomons flying fox with a weight of 661 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Long-tongued fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Masked flying fox with a weight of 130 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with a weight of 132 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Ceram fruit bat with a weight of 228 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 68 grams
- Swift fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Banks flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus fundatus:
- Shrew-faced squirrel bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed weasel bringing 191 grams to the scale
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel bringing 199 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Annandale’s rat bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Fire-footed rope squirrel bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Reddish tuco-tuco bringing 173 grams to the scale
- Little ground squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Mohave ground squirrel bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Tate’s triok bringing 252 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Banks flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Banks flying fox:
- Pyrenean desman with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red rock rat with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-throated woodrat with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray mouse lemur with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese mole with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sugar glider with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)