It is hard to guess what a Lesser flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser flying fox (Pteropus mahaganus) on average weights 296 grams (0.65 lbs).
The Lesser flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19 cm (0′ 8″).
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 lesser flying fox or Sanborn’s flying fox (Pteropus mahaganus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The species is poorly known, but is believed to inhabit coastal lowlands, including tropical rainforest. Although the species has been found plantations, the habitat of the species is fragmented by increasing agriculture and logging.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 465 grams
- Dusky fruit bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Ornate flying fox with a weight of 335 grams
- Tailless fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 239 grams
- Long-haired rousette with a weight of 104 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus mahaganus:
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum bringing 246 grams to the scale
- Highland tuco-tuco bringing 327 grams to the scale
- Yellow-bellied weasel bringing 264 grams to the scale
- African striped weasel bringing 308 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed woodrat bringing 286 grams to the scale
- Particolored flying squirrel bringing 255 grams to the scale
- Mentawai squirrel bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s pocket gopher bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s squirrel bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Pygmy slow loris bringing 343 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lesser flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lesser flying fox:
- Red bush squirrel with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Golden hamster with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Plateau pika with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-striped squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)