How many baby Hammer-headed bats are in a litter?
A Hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 125 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 39 grams (0.09 lbs) and measure 15.1 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Hypsignathus). An adult Hammer-headed bat grows up to a size of 22.6 cm (0′ 9″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The hammer-headed bat (Hypsignathus monstrosus), also known as hammer-headed fruit bat and big-lipped bat, is a megabat widely distributed in equatorial Africa. This large bat is found in riverine forests, mangroves, swamps, and palm forests at elevations less than 1,800 metres (5,900 ft).
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Hammer-headed bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Madagascan flying fox weighting only 122 grams
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 43 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette weighting only 74 grams
- Black-eared flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Egyptian fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lyle’s flying fox weighting only 319 grams
- Small flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy fruit bat weighting only 15 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 465 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Hammer-headed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Ocelot
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Brown titi
- Harnessed bushbuck
- Pennant’s colobus
- Nilgiri langur
- Jalapan pine vole
- White-nosed saki
- Ashy black titi
Animals with the same weight as a Hammer-headed bat
What other animals weight around 336 grams (0.74 lbs)?
- Texas pocket gopher weighting 397 grams
- Sucre spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Cuvier’s spiny rat weighting 339 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Emily’s tuco-tuco weighting 285 grams
- Big-eared flying fox weighting 365 grams
- Silvery marmoset weighting 376 grams
- Guaira spiny rat weighting 349 grams
- Colombian spiny rat weighting 312 grams
- Buffy-tufted marmoset weighting 387 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hammer-headed bat
Also reaching around 22.6 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Koslov’s pika gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common gundi gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Belding’s ground squirrel gets as big as 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- Large treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern African hedgehog gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black and red bush squirrel gets as big as 24.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Earless water rat gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)