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SpeciesChiropteraPteropodidae
Mammals

🦇Large flying fox

Pteropus vampyrus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Az óriás repülőkutya vagy más néven kalong (Pteropus vampyrus) az emlősök (Mammalia) osztályának a denevérek (Chiroptera) rendjéhez, ezen belül a nagydenevérek (Megachiroptera) alrendjéhez és a repülőkutyafélék (Pteropodidae) családjához tartozó nagy méretű faj.

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≈ 1/66th of your weight
Also called
Pteropus vampyrus, Kalong, Flying Dog, Large Flying-fox
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.94 kg
Body length
0.28 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
21 years
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Everything we know about the Large flying fox

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.94 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.87 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.28 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
10 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
21 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 21 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
8.03 yearsestimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
165 daysestimated
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.9 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Large flying fox yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderChiroptera
  5. ›familyPteropodidae
  6. ›genusPteropus
  7. ›speciesPteropus vampyrus
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderBats · Chiroptera
  3. familyPteropodidae
  4. genusPteropus
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderBats · Chiroptera
  12. suborderMegachiroptera
  13. familyPteropodidae
  14. genusPteropus
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Kalong (de), Pteropus vampyrus (es), Rudawka malajska (pl), Roussette de Malaisie (fr), Гигантская летучая лисица (ru), ค้างคาวแม่ไก่ป่าฝน (th) … and 20 more languages
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