It is hard to guess what a Pteropus temmincki weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pteropus temmincki (Pteropus temmincki) on average weights 250 grams (0.55 lbs).
The Pteropus temmincki is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.4 cm (0′ 4″). Normally, Pteropus temminckis 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.
Animals of the same family as a Pteropus temmincki
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat with a weight of 28 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Gilliard’s flying fox with a weight of 406 grams
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Guam flying fox with a weight of 153 grams
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with a weight of 14 grams
- Mariana fruit bat with a weight of 458 grams
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 107 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pteropus temmincki
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus temmincki:
- Arizona woodrat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Transbaikal zokor bringing 259 grams to the scale
- Dusky-footed woodrat bringing 219 grams to the scale
- Holochilus chacarius bringing 204 grams to the scale
- Common dwarf mongoose bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Lombok flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Speckled ground squirrel bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale