It is hard to guess what a Black-bearded flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black-bearded flying fox (Pteropus melanopogon) on average weights 872 grams (1.92 lbs).
The Black-bearded flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 28.5 cm (1′ 0″).
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 black-bearded flying fox (Pteropus melanopogon) is an endangered species of megabat in the genus Pteropus. It is endemic to Indonesia, found on the islands of Ambon, Buru, Seram, Banda, and Yamdena. Currently considered monotypic, it formerly included the Aru flying fox and Kei flying fox as subspecies.
Animals of the same family as a Black-bearded flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Sulawesi flying fox with a weight of 383 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Short-palated fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Lesser musky fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Long-haired rousette with a weight of 104 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 107 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 68 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black-bearded flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus melanopogon:
- Bronze quoll bringing 896 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied night monkey bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Black squirrel monkey bringing 784 grams to the scale
- Cuban solenodon bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Moluccan flying fox bringing 728 grams to the scale
- North African hedgehog bringing 931 grams to the scale
- Water opossum bringing 977 grams to the scale
- Aotus infulatus bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk bringing 960 grams to the scale
- Black-capped squirrel monkey bringing 802 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Black-bearded flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black-bearded flying fox:
- Western barred bandicoot with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Utah prairie dog with a size of 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
- Central American squirrel monkey with a size of 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Eastern quoll with a size of 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Bagobo rat with a size of 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- Mimic tree rat with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Basilan flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Little Swan Island hutia with a size of 33.7 cm (1′ 2″)
- Bengal mongoose with a size of 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)