What is the maximal age a Ryukyu flying fox reaches?
An adult Ryukyu flying fox (Pteropus dasymallus) usually gets as old as 31 years.
When born, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). As a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.14 meter (3′ 9″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Ryukyu flying fox or Ryukyu fruit bat (Pteropus dasymallus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Japan, Taiwan, and the Batanes and Babuyan Islands of the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss and by hunting for food and the IUCN classify it as “Vulnerable”.
Animals of the same family as a Ryukyu flying fox
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Pteropodidae):
- Woermann’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Madagascan flying fox bringing the scale to 122 grams
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Samoa flying fox bringing the scale to 309 grams
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat becoming 8 years old
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat bringing the scale to 32 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat bringing the scale to 53 grams
- Black-capped fruit bat bringing the scale to 17 grams
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat bringing the scale to 107 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Ryukyu flying fox
With an average age of 31 years, Ryukyu flying fox are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Tiger usually reaching 26.25 years
- Brown long-eared bat usually reaching 30 years
- Lion usually reaching 30 years
- Little brown bat usually reaching 34 years
- Amazonian manatee usually reaching 30 years
- Ribbon seal usually reaching 31 years
- Northern olingo usually reaching 25 years
- Western long-beaked echidna usually reaching 31 years
- Red deer usually reaching 26.75 years
- Red-bellied titi usually reaching 25.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Ryukyu flying fox
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Masoala fork-marked lemur
- Silver fruit-eating bat
- Moor macaque
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat
- Western woolly lemur
- Angola colobus
- Southern dog-faced bat
- Thorold’s deer
- Common eland
- Northern common cuscus
Weighting as much as Ryukyu flying fox
A fully grown Ryukyu flying fox reaches around 491 grams (1.08 lbs). So do these animals:
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 499 grams
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with 550 grams
- Desert bandicoot with 499 grams
- Striped possum with 413 grams
- Allegheny woodrat with 447 grams
- Broad-faced potoroo with 499 grams
- Greater mole-rat with 470 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel with 510 grams
- Goeldi’s marmoset with 558 grams
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 535 grams