It is hard to guess what a Montane monkey-faced bat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Montane monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex pulchra) on average weights 290 grams (0.64 lbs).
The Montane monkey-faced bat is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteralopex). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.7 cm (0′ 9″).
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 montane monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex pulchra) is a megabat endemic to the Solomon Islands. It is listed as a critically endangered species. Due to its imperiled status, it is identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction as a species in danger of imminent extinction. In 2013, Bat Conservation International listed this species as one of the 35 species of its worldwide priority list of conservation.Only one individual has ever been found.
Animals of the same family as a Montane monkey-faced bat
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Lombok flying fox with a weight of 256 grams
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 33 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 465 grams
- New Caledonia flying fox with a weight of 151 grams
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 78 grams
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat with a weight of 172 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox with a weight of 491 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat with a weight of 39 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Montane monkey-faced bat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteralopex pulchra:
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Tawny tuco-tuco bringing 280 grams to the scale
- Mindanao treeshrew bringing 301 grams to the scale
- Emily’s tuco-tuco bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 312 grams to the scale
- Amazon weasel bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Armored rat bringing 281 grams to the scale
- Cuvier’s spiny rat bringing 339 grams to the scale
- Emilia’s marmoset bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Eastern woodrat bringing 252 grams to the scale