It is hard to guess what a Pteropus gilliardi weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pteropus gilliardi (Pteropus gilliardi) on average weights 403 grams (0.89 lbs).
The Pteropus gilliardi is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.9 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Animals of the same family as a Pteropus gilliardi
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Greater musky fruit bat with a weight of 79 grams
- Dayak fruit bat with a weight of 81 grams
- Woermann’s bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Mariana fruit bat with a weight of 458 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a weight of 489 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a weight of 621 grams
- Great flying fox bringing 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 95 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pteropus gilliardi
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus gilliardi:
- Southern tuco-tuco bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco bringing 385 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Pousargues’s mongoose bringing 362 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed chinchilla bringing 480 grams to the scale
- Tropical pocket gopher bringing 350 grams to the scale
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur bringing 326 grams to the scale
- Guaira spiny rat bringing 349 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pteropus gilliardi
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pteropus gilliardi:
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Whiskered flying squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern red-sided opossum with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Allen’s chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser flying fox with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Senegal bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Nimba otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hastings River mouse with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)