It is hard to guess what a Geelvink Bay flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Geelvink Bay flying fox (Pteropus pohlei) on average weights 351 grams (0.77 lbs).
The Geelvink Bay flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 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 Geelvink Bay flying fox or Geelvink Bay fruit bat (Pteropus pohlei) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to West Papuan islands in Indonesia. The name comes from Geelvink Bay, now Cenderawasih Bay. It is common over a small area, and the population trend is decreasing. Major threats to the species are loss of habitat due to timber harvesting, and hunting.
Animals of the same family as a Geelvink Bay flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
- Black-eared flying fox with 1 babies per litter
- Swift fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Lombok flying fox with a weight of 256 grams
- Large flying fox bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Dusky fruit bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat with a weight of 48 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Geelvink Bay flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus pohlei:
- Montane monkey-faced bat bringing 290 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Brown-eared woolly opossum bringing 351 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Zanj sun squirrel bringing 347 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Admiralty flying fox bringing 305 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tree-rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Geelvink Bay flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Geelvink Bay flying fox:
- Deppe’s squirrel with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- American pika with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Siberian flying squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Highland tuco-tuco with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Rajah spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tropical pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black rat with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)