It is hard to guess what a Big-eared flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Big-eared flying fox (Pteropus macrotis) on average weights 365 grams (0.8 lbs).
The Big-eared flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.1 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Big-eared 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 big-eared flying fox (Pteropus macrotis) is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae, larger bats who subsist largely on fruits. The species is distributed across a range in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and islands nearing the Cape York peninsula at the northeast of Australia, at elevations less than 500 metres and often in coastal mangroves.
Animals of the same family as a Big-eared flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Madagascan rousette with a weight of 65 grams
- Montane monkey-faced bat with a weight of 290 grams
- Seychelles fruit bat with a weight of 491 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox with a weight of 872 grams
- New Caledonia blossom bat with 1 babies per litter
- Hammer-headed bat with a weight of 336 grams
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a weight of 74 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Big-eared flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus macrotis:
- Mentawai squirrel bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Emilia’s marmoset bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Lesser flying fox bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Pygmy rabbit bringing 437 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Hammer-headed bat bringing 336 grams to the scale
- Pousargues’s mongoose bringing 362 grams to the scale
- Black-tufted marmoset bringing 340 grams to the scale
- Black and rufous elephant shrew bringing 423 grams to the scale
- Silvery marmoset bringing 376 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Big-eared flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Big-eared flying fox:
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Highland tuco-tuco with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tawitawi forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Peruvian tuco-tuco with a size of 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Nectomys squamipes with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tropical ground squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Big-eared flying fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Big-eared flying fox: