Rousettus aegyptiacus (bat)

Mass: 129 g based on Jones 1971, Lindhe Norberg and Norberg 2012, and Stephan et al. 1981

Diet: frugivore based on Van Cakenberghe et al. 2002 and Dumont and Nicolay 2006

Abundance: 0.48 to 51.61% (median 7.52%)

Latitudinal range: -8.6° to 9.9°

Habitats: (1), montane grassland (3), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (4), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (3), tropical/subtropical savanna (5)

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Found in 16 samples

Cameroon: Shum Laka rock shelter (Lower Horizon; gray ash) (Holocene)

Central African Republic: Salo2 (bats)

Democratic Republic of the Congo: Durba

Equatorial Guinea: Mount Nimba (dry season), Mount Nimba (wet season)

Guinea: Forêt Classée du Pic de Fon

Kenya: Mount Kilimanjaro (home gardens)

Liberia: Voinjama, Gola 2

Nigeria: Orashi, Amurum Forest Reserve (farmland), Amurum Forest Reserve (gallery forest), Amurum Forest Reserve (rocky outcrop), Amurum Forest Reserve (savannah)

Tanzania: Mahenge Scarp Forest Reserve, Kazimzumbwi

Size measurements:
♀ body mass83.4 gN = 3Jones 1971
♂ body mass92.4 gN = 1Jones 1971
♂ body mass170.6 gN = 1Jones 1971
body mass140 gN = 1Lindhe Norberg and Norberg 2012
body mass145 gN = 11Stephan et al. 1981

See also Rousettus, Rousettus amplexicaudatus, Rousettus angolensis, Rousettus lanosus, Rousettus leschenaultii, Rousettus madagascariensis, Rousettus sp., Rousettus spinalatus