It is hard to guess what a Fijian monkey-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fijian monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex acrodonta) on average weights 256 grams (0.56 lbs).
The Fijian monkey-faced bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteralopex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.6 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Fijian monkey-faced bat or Fijian flying fox (Mirimiri acrodonta) is a megabat endemic to Fiji. It was discovered in old-growth cloud forest on Des Vœux Peak, the second highest mountain peak (1,195 m) on the island of Taveuni by William and Ruth Beckon in 1976, and is Fiji’s only endemic mammal. It has recently been transferred from Pteralopex to its own monotypic genus Mirimiri.
Animals of the same family as a Fijian monkey-faced bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Minor epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Little red flying fox with a weight of 379 grams
- Ceram fruit bat with a weight of 228 grams
- Solomons flying fox with a weight of 661 grams
- Guam flying fox with a weight of 153 grams
- Minute fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Pohle’s fruit bat with a weight of 69 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 152 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a weight of 733 grams
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fijian monkey-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteralopex acrodonta:
- Long-tailed spiny rat bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Lesser bandicoot rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Argentine tuco-tuco bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Barbary ground squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Northeast African mole-rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Spiny Ceram rat bringing 306 grams to the scale
- O’Connell’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Fijian 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 Fijian monkey-faced bat:
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Palawan montane squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern African hedgehog with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Slender squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Papuan bandicoot with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Highland tuco-tuco with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)