How big does a Lyle’s flying fox get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Lyle’s flying fox (Pteropus lylei) reaches an average size of 23.7 cm (0′ 10″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 319 grams (0.7 lbs). The Lyle’s flying fox (genus: Pteropus) is a member of the family Pteropodidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
Lyle’s flying fox (Pteropus lylei) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, with an outlying population in Yunnan, China. It faces persecution from farmers and it is killed for bushmeat in parts of its range. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being “vulnerable”.
Animals of the same family as a Lyle’s flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pteropus brunneus with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with 1 babies per litter
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large flying fox with 1 babies per litter
- Common blossom bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Madagascan fruit bat with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-winged flying fox with a weight of 343 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lyle’s flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lyle’s flying fox:
- Mindanao treeshrew with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Slender-tailed squirrel with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Vogelkop ringtail possum with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Philippine forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Deppe’s squirrel with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same weight as a Lyle’s flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus lylei:
- O’Connell’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Allen’s woodrat bringing 368 grams to the scale
- Black-tufted marmoset bringing 340 grams to the scale
- Guyanan spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed woodrat bringing 286 grams to the scale
- Lesser bilby bringing 364 grams to the scale
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 312 grams to the scale
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Shiny guinea pig bringing 283 grams to the scale