It is hard to guess what a Temotu flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Temotu flying fox (Pteropus nitendiensis) on average weights 274 grams (0.6 lbs).
The Temotu flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.5 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.
The Temotu flying fox (Pteropus nitendiensis) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Solomon Islands. It is threatened by habitat destruction due to subsistence agricultural practices, as well as natural disasters such as tropical cyclones. Due to its imperiled status, it is identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction as a species in danger of imminent extinction. In 2013, Bat Conservation International listed this species as one of the 35 species of its worldwide priority list of conservation.
Animals of the same family as a Temotu flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Black-bearded flying fox with a weight of 872 grams
- Montane monkey-faced bat with a weight of 290 grams
- Sulawesi flying fox with a weight of 383 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a weight of 253 grams
- Samoa flying fox with a weight of 309 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 21 grams
- Seychelles fruit bat with a weight of 491 grams
- Lesser flying fox with a weight of 296 grams
- Dusky fruit bat with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Temotu flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus nitendiensis:
- O’Connell’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Red slender loris bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 267 grams to the scale
- Eastern woodrat bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Common marmoset bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot bringing 220 grams to the scale
- Squirrel glider bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Eastern rat bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Highland tuco-tuco bringing 327 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Temotu flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Temotu flying fox:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Roman mole with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tiny tuco-tuco with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Slender treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Barbary ground squirrel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sonoran woodrat with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)