It is hard to guess what a Masked flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Masked flying fox (Pteropus personatus) on average weights 130 grams (0.29 lbs).
The Masked flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.6 cm (0′ 6″).
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 masked flying fox, Moluccan masked flying fox or masked fruit bat (Pteropus personatus), is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Indonesia. It is part of a species complex of closely related species. The species is hunted.
Animals of the same family as a Masked flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Samoa flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
- Admiralty flying fox with a weight of 305 grams
- Long-tongued fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a weight of 524 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 122 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 465 grams
- Dayak fruit bat with a weight of 81 grams
- Small flying fox with a weight of 434 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with a weight of 84 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Masked flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus personatus:
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Edible dormouse bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Chilean rock rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Amazonian marsh rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- White-eared cotton rat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Kowari bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Madagascan flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Lowland streaked tenrec bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 121 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Masked flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Masked flying fox:
- Chiruromys lamia with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ghost bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Colorado chipmunk with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pousargues African fat mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)