It is hard to guess what a Moluccan flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Moluccan flying fox (Pteropus chrysoproctus) on average weights 728 grams (1.6 lbs).
The Moluccan flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.3 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.
The Moluccan flying fox (Pteropus chrysoproctus), also known as the Ambon flying fox, is a species of megabat in the genus Pteropus.It is found in the low-lying forests (less than 250 m above sea level) of Seram Island (including Manusela National Park), Buru, Ambon and the nearby Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia.Another Pteropus species, P. argentatus, was until recently considered to be the same species as P. chrysoproctus.The habitat has an area of less than 20,000 km² and is decreasing due to logging. For this reason, and because of hunting by the local population, these species have been listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.
Animals of the same family as a Moluccan flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Philippine dawn bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox bringing 1.09 kilos (2.4 lbs) to the scale
- Guam flying fox with a weight of 153 grams
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Solomons flying fox with a weight of 661 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Moluccan flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus chrysoproctus:
- Yellow ground squirrel bringing 779 grams to the scale
- Northern greater galago bringing 812 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum bringing 765 grams to the scale
- Mexican fox squirrel bringing 697 grams to the scale
- Black-bearded flying fox bringing 872 grams to the scale
- Mountain ground squirrel bringing 625 grams to the scale
- Giant white-tailed rat bringing 644 grams to the scale
- Cape dune mole-rat bringing 804 grams to the scale
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog bringing 690 grams to the scale
- Black-footed tree-rat bringing 716 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Moluccan flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Moluccan flying fox:
- Busuanga squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Japen rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-handed tamarin with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Yellow mongoose with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Big-headed African mole-rat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Columbian ground squirrel with a size of 29.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Painted ringtail possum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Ear-spot squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)