It is hard to guess what a Comoro rousette weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Comoro rousette (Rousettus obliviosus) on average weights 45 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Comoro rousette is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Rousettus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Comoro rousette (Rousettus obliviosus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae endemic to the Comoros Islands. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, caves, plantations, and urban areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Comoro rousette
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 233 grams
- Moss-forest blossom bat with a weight of 20 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 36 grams
- Large flying fox bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a weight of 351 grams
- Sulawesi rousette with a weight of 63 grams
- Hammer-headed bat with a weight of 336 grams
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a weight of 256 grams
- Ontong Java flying fox with a weight of 232 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Comoro rousette
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rousettus obliviosus:
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Verreaux’s mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Crested-tailed deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Desert mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Oecomys bicolor bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Plateau mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Great evening bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Ecuadorian grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale