It is hard to guess what a Solomons flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Solomons flying fox (Pteropus rayneri) on average weights 661 grams (1.46 lbs).
The Solomons flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). It is usually born with about 69 grams (0.15 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.6 cm (0′ 11″).
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 Solomons flying fox (Pteropus rayneri) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago. The population abundance has been marked by periodic die-offs of generally unknown cause, including a major die-off in the 1980s. Hunting may be a significant threat to the population.
Animals of the same family as a Solomons flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rodrigues flying fox with a weight of 256 grams
- Harpy fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 24 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a weight of 489 grams
- Ceram fruit bat with a weight of 228 grams
- Greater nectar bat with a weight of 72 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox with a weight of 872 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a weight of 74 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a weight of 733 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Solomons flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus rayneri:
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog bringing 690 grams to the scale
- Painted ringtail possum bringing 642 grams to the scale
- Malayan weasel bringing 569 grams to the scale
- Black lion tamarin bringing 656 grams to the scale
- New Guinean quoll bringing 611 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed sportive lemur bringing 763 grams to the scale
- Black squirrel monkey bringing 784 grams to the scale
- Rakali bringing 626 grams to the scale
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew bringing 535 grams to the scale
- Arctic ground squirrel bringing 747 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Solomons flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Solomons flying fox:
- Davao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-tailed weasel with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-footed tamarin with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Arctic ground squirrel with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black flying fox with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- King rat (animal) with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Sunda slow loris with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Guyenne spiny rat with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Painted ringtail possum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)