It is hard to guess what a Grey-headed flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) on average weights 702 grams (1.55 lbs).
The Grey-headed flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). It is usually born with about 70 grams (0.15 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 27.2 cm (0′ 11″). On average, Grey-headed flying foxs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) is a megabat native to Australia. The species shares mainland Australia with three other members of the genus Pteropus: the little red P. scapulatus, spectacled P. conspicillatus, and the black P. alecto.The grey-headed flying fox is endemic to the south-eastern forested areas of Australia, principally east of the Great Dividing Range. Its range extends approximately from Bundaberg in Queensland to Geelong in Victoria, with outlying colonies in Ingham and Finch Hatton in the north, and in Adelaide in the south. In the southern parts of its range it occupies more extreme latitudes than any other Pteropus species.
Animals of the same family as a Grey-headed flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Sulawesi flying fox with a weight of 383 grams
- Mauritian flying fox with a weight of 473 grams
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 93 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 301 grams
- Luzon fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Gray flying fox with a weight of 90 grams
- Common blossom bat with a weight of 17 grams
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- Indian flying fox with a weight of 822 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Grey-headed flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus poliocephalus:
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing 620 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum bringing 765 grams to the scale
- Mexican fox squirrel bringing 697 grams to the scale
- Black flying fox bringing 609 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed sportive lemur bringing 763 grams to the scale
- Mountain ground squirrel bringing 625 grams to the scale
- Bengal mongoose bringing 741 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied night monkey bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Maned rat bringing 755 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Grey-headed flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Grey-headed flying fox:
- Common echymipera with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hammer-headed bat with a size of 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Arctic ground squirrel with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 22.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- White-tailed antsangy with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Allen’s woodrat with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Luzon broad-toothed rat with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Grey-headed flying fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Grey-headed flying fox: