It is hard to guess what a Lombok flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lombok flying fox (Pteropus lombocensis) on average weights 256 grams (0.56 lbs).
The Lombok flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 34 cm (1′ 2″).
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 Lombok flying fox (Pteropus lombocensis) is a species of megabat in the genus Pteropus. It is endemic to Indonesia. This species has been listed on Appendix II of CITES since 1990, along with most others in the genus Pteropus. It was classified as “Least Concern” by the IUCN in 1996, but was changed to “Data Deficient” in 2008 due to uncertainty of the abundance and possible threats from hunting and habitat destruction.
Animals of the same family as a Lombok flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Solomons flying fox with a weight of 661 grams
- Lesser musky fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox with a weight of 396 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 67 grams
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
- Greater nectar bat with a weight of 72 grams
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a weight of 44 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lombok flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus lombocensis:
- Saharan striped polecat bringing 218 grams to the scale
- Goeldi’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Pacific spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed woodrat bringing 286 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest rat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- Euphrates jerboa bringing 232 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco bringing 212 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 221 grams to the scale