It is hard to guess what a Vanuatu flying fox weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Vanuatu flying fox (Pteropus anetianus) on average weights 396 grams (0.87 lbs).
The Vanuatu flying fox is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Pteropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.4 cm (0′ 10″).
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 Vanuatu flying fox or white flying fox (Pteropus anetianus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Vanuatu. It is most closely related to the Samoa flying fox.
Animals of the same family as a Vanuatu flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Sunda flying fox with a weight of 466 grams
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 239 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat with a weight of 172 grams
- Dwarf flying fox with a weight of 122 grams
- Lyle’s flying fox with a weight of 319 grams
- Pteropus temmincki with a weight of 250 grams
- Greater nectar bat with a weight of 72 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 236 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Vanuatu flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus anetianus:
- Highland tuco-tuco bringing 327 grams to the scale
- Golden-mantled tamarin bringing 385 grams to the scale
- Japen rat bringing 380 grams to the scale
- Buffy-tufted marmoset bringing 387 grams to the scale
- Indonesian mountain weasel bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Camas pocket gopher bringing 360 grams to the scale
- Pousargues’s mongoose bringing 362 grams to the scale
- Brown four-eyed opossum bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Silky tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Greater mole-rat bringing 470 grams to the scale