It is hard to guess what a Great flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Great flying fox (Pteropus neohibernicus) on average weights 1.02 kg (2.24 lbs).
The Great flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 27.9 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Great flying foxs 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 great flying fox (Pteropus neohibernicus), also known as the greater flying fox or Bismarck flying fox, is a species of megabat in the genus Pteropus, found throughout lowland areas of New Guinea and in the Bismarck Archipelago. At up to 1.45 kg (3.2 lb) in weight, it is among the largest bats in the world. It is a gregarious animal which roosts with hundreds or thousands of individuals.It is hunted for human consumption in New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Great flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Greater musky fruit bat with a weight of 79 grams
- Greater nectar bat with a weight of 72 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Sulawesi flying fox with a weight of 383 grams
- New Caledonia flying fox with a weight of 151 grams
- Black-capped fruit bat with a weight of 17 grams
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 179 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Big-eared flying fox with a weight of 365 grams
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Great flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus neohibernicus:
- Indian giant squirrel with a weight of 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs)
- Screaming hairy armadillo bringing 930 grams to the scale
- Oncilla with a weight of 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs)
- Ashy black titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Menzies’ echymipera with a weight of 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs)
- Emperor rat with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Western white-eared giant rat bringing 932 grams to the scale
- Mimic tree rat bringing 975 grams to the scale
- Northern olingo with a weight of 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs)
- Eastern barred bandicoot bringing 903 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Great flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Great flying fox:
- Meerkat with a size of 28.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Angolan kusimanse with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Greater grison with a size of 25.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Rufous elephant shrew with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Great Key Island giant rat with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brown greater galago with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Columbian ground squirrel with a size of 29.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Utah prairie dog with a size of 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Great flying fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Great flying fox: