It is hard to guess what a Angolan rousette weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Angolan rousette (Lissonycteris angolensis) on average weights 68 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Angolan rousette is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Lissonycteris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.5 cm (0′ 5″). Normally, Angolan rousettes can have babies 2 times a year.
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 Angolan fruit bat or Angolan rousette (Myonycteris angolensis) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, moist savanna, and rocky areas.
Animals of the same family as a Angolan rousette
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 85 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a weight of 489 grams
- Minute fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 218 grams
- Montane monkey-faced bat with a weight of 290 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a weight of 524 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 165 grams
- Bare-backed rousette with a weight of 92 grams
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 239 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Angolan rousette
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lissonycteris angolensis:
- One-striped opossum bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Sundevall’s jird bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Oecomys trinitatis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Alston’s cotton rat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Pygmy treeshrew bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys yunganus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Big deer mouse bringing 71 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Angolan rousette
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Angolan rousette:
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed phascogale with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- South African pouched mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Incan caenolestid with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Star-nosed mole with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)