It is hard to guess what a Dwarf flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dwarf flying fox (Pteropus woodfordi) on average weights 122 grams (0.27 lbs).
The Dwarf flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.1 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 dwarf flying fox, least flying fox, or least fruit bat (Pteropus woodfordi) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands. It is threatened by deforestation, which is believed to damage roosting sites in old growth forests.
Animals of the same family as a Dwarf flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a weight of 733 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat with a weight of 39 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with a weight of 296 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox with a weight of 491 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 56 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with a weight of 84 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 465 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dwarf flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus woodfordi:
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Owl’s spiny rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Tristram’s jird bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s bushbaby bringing 117 grams to the scale
- African marsh rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Edible dormouse bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Steppe pika bringing 143 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dwarf flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dwarf flying fox:
- One-striped opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cape elephant shrew with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Water vole (North America) with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mozambique thicket rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Indian long-eared hedgehog with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)