How many baby Antillean fruit-eating bats are in a litter?
A Antillean fruit-eating bat (Brachyphylla cavernarum) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5.88 kg (12.96 lbs) and measure 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Brachyphylla). An adult Antillean fruit-eating bat grows up to a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Antillean fruit-eating bat (Brachyphylla cavernarum) is one of two leaf-nosed bat species belonging to the genus Brachyphylla. The species occurs in the Caribbean from Puerto Rico to St. Vincent and Barbados. Fossil specimens have also been recorded from New Providence, Bahamas.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Antillean fruit-eating bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Wrinkle-faced bat weighting only 23 grams
- Southern little yellow-eared bat weighting only 8 grams
- Chestnut long-tongued bat weighting only 8 grams
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat weighting only 10 grams
- Orange nectar bat weighting only 13 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat weighting only 18 grams
- Little white-shouldered bat weighting only 10 grams
- California leaf-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Little big-eared bat weighting only 6 grams
- Leach’s single leaf bat weighting only 8 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Antillean fruit-eating bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sika deer
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Olive colobus
- Melck’s house bat
- Indian hog deer
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Hershkovitz’s titi
- Sun bear
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
Animals with the same weight as a Antillean fruit-eating bat
What other animals weight around 45 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Greater broad-nosed bat weighting 37 grams
- Akodon sylvanus weighting 39 grams
- Rupp’s mouse weighting 49 grams
- Fat-tailed gerbil weighting 47 grams
- Desert mouse weighting 37 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat weighting 46 grams
- White-footed climbing mouse weighting 40 grams
- Pale gerbil weighting 52 grams
- Sambirano mouse lemur weighting 49 grams
- Uinta chipmunk weighting 51 grams
Animals with the same size as a Antillean fruit-eating bat
Also reaching around 8.1 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Nubra pika gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Great fruit-eating bat gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fresno kangaroo rat gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little desert pocket mouse gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-sided opossum gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican shrew gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Julia Creek dunnart gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Madagascan flying fox gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bates’s shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)