It is hard to guess what a Gilliard’s flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gilliard’s flying fox (Pteropus gilliardorum) on average weights 406 grams (0.9 lbs).
The Gilliard’s flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.9 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Gilliard’s flying fox (Pteropus gilliardorum) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. In Spanish, the common name is zorro volador de Gilliard. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. It is known from only three specimens.
Animals of the same family as a Gilliard’s flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Woermann’s bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 301 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a weight of 74 grams
- Montane monkey-faced bat with a weight of 290 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 68 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gilliard’s flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus gilliardorum:
- Bolivian tuco-tuco bringing 462 grams to the scale
- Ornate flying fox bringing 335 grams to the scale
- White-headed marmoset bringing 342 grams to the scale
- Sunda flying fox bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Bagobo rat bringing 395 grams to the scale
- Tome’s spiny rat bringing 355 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi flying fox bringing 383 grams to the scale
- Allegheny woodrat bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Pied tamarin bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Brazilian yellow-toothed cavy bringing 450 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gilliard’s flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gilliard’s flying fox:
- Brooke’s squirrel with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dayak fruit bat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-tailed gymnure with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- American pika with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dark-tailed tree rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Silvery mole-rat with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)