How many baby Admiralty flying foxs are in a litter?
A Admiralty flying fox (Pteropus admiralitatum) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus). An adult Admiralty flying fox grows up to a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Admiralty flying fox (Pteropus admiralitatum) is a species of fruit bat in the family Pteropodidae, the megabats. It is found in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Admiralty flying fox is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Dayak fruit bat weighting only 81 grams
- Short-palated fruit bat weighting only 28 grams
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat weighting only 95 grams
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Little red flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 301 grams
- Harpy fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 218 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Admiralty flying fox
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Fin whale
- Black wallaroo
- Little free-tailed bat
- Harpy fruit bat
- Banana pipistrelle
- White-footed sportive lemur
- Giant roundleaf bat
- Homo sapiens
- Greater bamboo lemur
Animals with the same weight as a Admiralty flying fox
What other animals weight around 305 grams (0.67 lbs)?
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur weighting 326 grams
- Long-tailed giant rat weighting 349 grams
- Richardson’s ground squirrel weighting 325 grams
- Derby’s woolly opossum weighting 328 grams
- Gambian sun squirrel weighting 248 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 302 grams
- Northern glider weighting 278 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat weighting 296 grams
- Savile’s bandicoot rat weighting 260 grams
- Guyanan spiny rat weighting 284 grams
Animals with the same size as a Admiralty flying fox
Also reaching around 17.9 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Sugar glider gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Komodo rat gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cerradomys subflavus gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat gets as big as 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tsing-ling pika gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-eared hedgehog gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 17.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)