It is hard to guess what a Bare-backed rousette weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bare-backed rousette (Rousettus spinalatus) on average weights 92 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Bare-backed rousette is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Rousettus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Bare-backed rousettes have 1 babies per litter.
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 bare-backed rousette (Rousettus spinalatus) is a species of megabat.
Animals of the same family as a Bare-backed rousette
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 48 grams
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 43 grams
- Little red flying fox with a weight of 379 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 66 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat with a weight of 39 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a weight of 218 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a weight of 30 grams
- Large flying fox bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- Greater nectar bat with a weight of 72 grams
- Luzon fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bare-backed rousette
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rousettus spinalatus:
- Splendid climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Acacia rat bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Dayak fruit bat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Large tree mouse bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Big-eared hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Common rufous-nosed rat bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Romanian hamster bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Bare-backed rousette
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bare-backed rousette: