How big does a Geoffroy’s rousette get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Geoffroy’s rousette (Rousettus amplexicaudatus) reaches an average size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 74 grams (0.16 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 12 grams (0.03 lbs). On average, Geoffroy’s rousettes have offspring about 2 times per year. The Geoffroy’s rousette (genus: Rousettus) 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.
Geoffroy’s rousette (Rousettus amplexicaudatus) is a species of megabat or Old World fruit bats. It is one of 10 species in the genus Rousettus.
Animals of the same family as a Geoffroy’s rousette
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Gray flying fox with a weight of 90 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Guam flying fox with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Montane monkey-faced bat with a weight of 290 grams
- Small flying fox with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Pteropus brunneus with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Halmahera blossom bat with a weight of 39 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.4 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same size as a Geoffroy’s rousette
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Geoffroy’s rousette:
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cave nectar bat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed phascogale with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ghost bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Geoffroy’s rousette
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rousettus amplexicaudatus:
- Biting chinchilla mouse bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Edward’s swamp rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Small hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Lodgepole chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Mearns’s pouched mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Marmoset rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Indian desert jird bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Dibbler bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys auriventer bringing 60 grams to the scale