It is hard to guess what a Black flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) on average weights 609 grams (1.34 lbs).
The Black flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.4 cm (0′ 10″). On average, Black flying foxs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 flying fox or black fruit bat (Pteropus alecto) is a bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is among the largest bats in the world, but is considerably smaller than the largest species in its genus, Pteropus. The black flying fox is native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia. It is not a threatened species.
Animals of the same family as a Black flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 67 grams
- Long-tailed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
- Little golden-mantled flying fox with a weight of 184 grams
- Black-capped fruit bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Black-eared flying fox with 1 babies per litter
- Pohle’s fruit bat with a weight of 69 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus alecto:
- Bismarck giant rat bringing 613 grams to the scale
- Epixerus bringing 559 grams to the scale
- Broad-faced potoroo bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Forest giant squirrel bringing 630 grams to the scale
- Spermophilus relictus bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Giant pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Narrow-striped mongoose bringing 664 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose bringing 550 grams to the scale
- California ground squirrel bringing 598 grams to the scale
- Squirrel-toothed rat bringing 511 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Black 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 flying fox:
- Saharan striped polecat with a size of 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Red bush squirrel with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Large Luzon forest rat with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Uinta ground squirrel with a size of 21.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Great-tailed triok with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Guadalcanal rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Grey-bellied squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Prevost’s squirrel with a size of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Goeldi’s marmoset with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 22.7 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Black flying fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Black flying fox: