It is hard to guess what a Bougainville monkey-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bougainville monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex anceps) on average weights 573 grams (1.26 lbs).
The Bougainville monkey-faced bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteralopex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.2 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Bougainville monkey-faced bats 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 Bougainville monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex anceps) is a megabat endemic to Bougainville Island of Papua New Guinea and Choiseul Island of the Solomon Islands in Melanesia.It inhabits mature forests in upland areas, within the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and Bougouriba Province.
Animals of the same family as a Bougainville monkey-faced bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Banks flying fox with a weight of 210 grams
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a weight of 116 grams
- Montane monkey-faced bat with a weight of 290 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox with a weight of 872 grams
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Rodrigues flying fox with a weight of 256 grams
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Samoa flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 179 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bougainville monkey-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteralopex anceps:
- Northern quoll bringing 477 grams to the scale
- Central African oyan bringing 570 grams to the scale
- Sunda flying fox bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Eastern spotted skunk bringing 568 grams to the scale
- Ashy-headed flying fox bringing 524 grams to the scale
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat bringing 502 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose bringing 550 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose bringing 485 grams to the scale
- Variable pocket gopher bringing 615 grams to the scale
- Superagüi lion tamarin bringing 605 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bougainville monkey-faced bat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bougainville monkey-faced bat:
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hispaniolan solenodon with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Uinta ground squirrel with a size of 21.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- White-tailed prairie dog with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mexican fox squirrel with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Central American squirrel monkey with a size of 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Allen’s squirrel with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bougainville monkey-faced bat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bougainville monkey-faced bat: