It is hard to guess what a Pemba flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pemba flying fox (Pteropus voeltzkowi) on average weights 541 grams (1.19 lbs).
The Pemba flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.5 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Pemba flying foxs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 Pemba flying fox (Pteropus voeltzkowi) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the island of Pemba on the coast of Tanzania.
Animals of the same family as a Pemba flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- White-winged flying fox with a weight of 343 grams
- Swift fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a weight of 351 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 29 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with a weight of 702 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat with a weight of 56 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a weight of 733 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a weight of 524 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Spectacled flying fox with a weight of 759 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pemba flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus voeltzkowi:
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- Mountain ground squirrel bringing 625 grams to the scale
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing 620 grams to the scale
- Bismarck giant rat bringing 613 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed chinchilla bringing 500 grams to the scale
- White-footed sportive lemur bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Dark spiny tree-rat bringing 627 grams to the scale
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- Greater mole-rat bringing 470 grams to the scale
- Oaxacan pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Pemba flying fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Pemba flying fox: