It is hard to guess what a Long-haired rousette weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-haired rousette (Rousettus lanosus) on average weights 104 grams (0.23 lbs).
The Long-haired rousette is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Rousettus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 long-haired rousette (Rousettus lanosus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Animals of the same family as a Long-haired rousette
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Indian flying fox with a weight of 822 grams
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat with a weight of 16 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a weight of 119 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat with a weight of 47 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox with a weight of 396 grams
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 107 grams
- Pteropus gilliardi with a weight of 403 grams
- Little red flying fox with a weight of 379 grams
- Admiralty flying fox with a weight of 305 grams
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a weight of 24 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-haired rousette
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rousettus lanosus:
- Texas kangaroo rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Mazama pocket gopher bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Central rock rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 118 grams to the scale
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Big-eared climbing rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Voalavoanala bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Bramble Cay melomys bringing 100 grams to the scale