It is hard to guess what a Insular flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Insular flying fox (Pteropus tonganus) on average weights 560 grams (1.23 lbs).
The Insular flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). It is usually born with about 96 grams (0.21 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.7 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Insular 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 insular flying fox or Pacific flying fox (Pteropus tonganus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is geographically widespread, the most widespread flying fox in the Pacific: it is found in American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa (where it is called pe’a fanua, pe’a fai and taulaga), the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.
Animals of the same family as a Insular flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Short-palated fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Greater nectar bat with a weight of 72 grams
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 439 grams
- Minor epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 68 grams
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 59 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Insular flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus tonganus:
- Red-handed tamarin bringing 541 grams to the scale
- Black flying fox bringing 609 grams to the scale
- Spermophilus relictus bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu flying fox bringing 491 grams to the scale
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing 620 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Black-mantled tamarin bringing 450 grams to the scale
- White-lipped tamarin bringing 509 grams to the scale
- Giant white-tailed rat bringing 644 grams to the scale
- White-footed tamarin bringing 457 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Insular flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Insular flying fox:
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser stick-nest rat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Big-headed African mole-rat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Vinogradov’s jird with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Insular flying fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Insular flying fox: