It is hard to guess what a Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex atrata) on average weights 489 grams (1.08 lbs).
The Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteralopex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.7 cm (0′ 9″).
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 Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex atrata) is a megabat endemic to Solomon Islands. It is listed as an endangered species. In 2013, Bat Conservation International listed this species as one of the 35 species of its worldwide priority list of conservation.
Animals of the same family as a Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 121 grams
- Admiralty flying fox with a weight of 305 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 122 grams
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with a weight of 84 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox with a weight of 872 grams
- Big-eared flying fox with a weight of 365 grams
- Guam flying fox with a weight of 153 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteralopex atrata:
- Mexican gray squirrel bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Seychelles fruit bat bringing 491 grams to the scale
- Siberian weasel bringing 531 grams to the scale
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat bringing 502 grams to the scale
- Giant golden mole bringing 440 grams to the scale
- Variegated squirrel bringing 485 grams to the scale
- Red-handed tamarin bringing 541 grams to the scale
- Prevost’s squirrel bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Greater bandicoot rat bringing 583 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose bringing 485 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Guadalcanal 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 Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat:
- Turkestan red pika with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Alpine pika with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Plantain squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Afghan pika with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black jackrabbit with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)