It is hard to guess what a Madagascan rousette weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Madagascan rousette (Rousettus madagascariensis) on average weights 65 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Madagascan rousette is from the family Pteropodidae (genus: Rousettus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Madagascan 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 Madagascan rousette (Rousettus madagascariensis) or Madagascar rousette, is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Madagascan rousette
We found other animals of the Pteropodidae family:
- Pohle’s fruit bat with a weight of 69 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox with a weight of 396 grams
- Solomons flying fox with a weight of 661 grams
- Harpy fruit bat with a weight of 135 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a weight of 351 grams
- White-collared fruit bat with a weight of 18 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a weight of 524 grams
- Greater musky fruit bat with a weight of 79 grams
- New Caledonia blossom bat with 1 babies per litter
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Madagascan rousette
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rousettus madagascariensis:
- Togo mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Small five-toed jerboa bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Julia Creek dunnart bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Dressy Oldfield mouse bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed chipmunk bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Taczanowski’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Slender Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Link rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Eastern rock elephant shrew bringing 59 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Madagascan rousette
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Madagascan rousette:
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rock vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Central rock rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pseudoryzomys with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Madagascan rousette
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Madagascan rousette: