It is hard to guess what a Ornate flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ornate flying fox (Pteropus ornatus) on average weights 335 grams (0.74 lbs).
The Ornate flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). Normally, Ornate flying foxs can have babies 1 times a year.
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 ornate flying fox (Pteropus ornatus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to New Caledonia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened due to habitat destruction and hunting, the former exacerbated by high roost-site fidelity.
Animals of the same family as a Ornate flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Madagascan flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
- Greater musky fruit bat with a weight of 79 grams
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 239 grams
- Lombok flying fox with a weight of 256 grams
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 67 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ornate flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus ornatus:
- Cuvier’s spiny rat bringing 339 grams to the scale
- Golden-mantled tamarin bringing 385 grams to the scale
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed squirrel bringing 319 grams to the scale
- Lesser flying fox bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi flying fox bringing 383 grams to the scale
- Unstriped ground squirrel bringing 317 grams to the scale
- Texas pocket gopher bringing 397 grams to the scale
- Derby’s woolly opossum bringing 328 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ornate flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ornate flying fox:
- Bush rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pteropus gilliardi with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Japen rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ricefield rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large-eared pika with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Jentink’s squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Harpy fruit bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)