It is hard to guess what a Angolan rousette weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Angolan rousette (Rousettus angolensis) on average weights 67 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Angolan rousette is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Rousettus). 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:
- Rodrigues flying fox with a weight of 256 grams
- Pemba flying fox with a weight of 541 grams
- Insular flying fox with a weight of 560 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 122 grams
- Minute fruit bat with a weight of 26 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 226 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox with a weight of 396 grams
- Sulawesi flying fox with a weight of 383 grams
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a weight of 524 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Angolan rousette
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rousettus angolensis:
- Vampyriscus nymphaea bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Charming thicket rat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Southern big-eared mouse bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Great fruit-eating bat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Smoky mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Indian desert jird bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Southern marsupial mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Taczanowski’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 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:
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Creeping vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden mouse with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain pygmy possum with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Colorado chipmunk with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland jumping mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Parantechinus bilarni with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)