It is hard to guess what a Lyle’s flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lyle’s flying fox (Pteropus lylei) on average weights 319 grams (0.7 lbs).
The Lyle’s flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.7 cm (0′ 10″).
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.
Lyle’s flying fox (Pteropus lylei) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, with an outlying population in Yunnan, China. It faces persecution from farmers and it is killed for bushmeat in parts of its range. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being “vulnerable”.
Animals of the same family as a Lyle’s flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Comoro rousette with a weight of 45 grams
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Small flying fox with a weight of 434 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 55 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 218 grams
- Spectacled flying fox with a weight of 759 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox with a weight of 872 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with a weight of 296 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lyle’s flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus lylei:
- Tropical pocket gopher bringing 350 grams to the scale
- Black-shouldered opossum bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy bringing 361 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Chiapan climbing rat bringing 280 grams to the scale
- Golden-backed tree-rat bringing 294 grams to the scale
- Desert hedgehog bringing 352 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 314 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed giant rat bringing 349 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lyle’s flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lyle’s flying fox:
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- White-footed tamarin with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Buffy-tufted marmoset with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a size of 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern Plains woodrat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mexican fox squirrel with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black and red bush squirrel with a size of 24.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pied tamarin with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)