How big does a Small flying fox get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Small flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) reaches an average size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 434 grams (0.96 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Small flying foxs have 1 babies about 1 times per year. The Small 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.
The small flying fox, island flying fox or variable flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Animals of the same family as a Small flying fox
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Ceram fruit bat with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 465 grams
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Leschenault’s rousette with 1 babies per litter
- East African little collared fruit bat with a weight of 53 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Guam flying fox with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with a size of 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Dayak fruit bat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same size as a Small flying fox
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Small flying fox:
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Deppe’s squirrel with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mindanao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Guyenne spiny rat with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Uinta ground squirrel with a size of 21.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Barbary ground squirrel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with a size of 20.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mountain weasel with a size of 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Small flying fox
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Small flying fox:
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
- Malagasy giant rat
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Gould’s long-eared bat
- Eastern falanouc
- Fea’s muntjac
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey
- Muskox
- Purple-faced langur
- Sangihe tarsier
Animals with the same weight as a Small flying fox
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pteropus hypomelanus:
- Black-headed marmoset bringing 401 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tamarin bringing 493 grams to the scale
- Gray four-eyed opossum bringing 426 grams to the scale
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni bringing 422 grams to the scale
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat bringing 394 grams to the scale
- Michoacan pocket gopher bringing 474 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 398 grams to the scale
- Darien pocket gopher bringing 437 grams to the scale
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel bringing 500 grams to the scale
- Eastern small-toothed rat bringing 357 grams to the scale