It is hard to guess what a Geoffroy’s rousette weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Geoffroy’s rousette (Rousettus amplexicaudatus) on average weights 74 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Geoffroy’s rousette is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Rousettus). It is usually born with about 12 grams (0.03 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). Normally, Geoffroy’s 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.
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:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 25 grams
- Dusky fruit bat with a weight of 35 grams
- Lesser flying fox with a weight of 296 grams
- Angolan rousette with a weight of 68 grams
- Sulawesi rousette with a weight of 63 grams
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a weight of 116 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a weight of 524 grams
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a weight of 253 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 121 grams
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:
- Crete spiny mouse bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed mountain rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Marmoset rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Glacier rat bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Chestnut white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Vampyriscus nymphaea bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Nimba otter shrew bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Hottentot golden mole bringing 65 grams to the scale
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:
- White-tipped Oldfield mouse with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Highland brush mouse with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky hopping mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smoky mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)