How many baby Big-eared flying foxs are in a litter?
A Big-eared flying fox (Pteropus macrotis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 137 grams (0.3 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus). An adult Big-eared flying fox grows up to a size of 21.1 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 big-eared flying fox (Pteropus macrotis) is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae, larger bats who subsist largely on fruits. The species is distributed across a range in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and islands nearing the Cape York peninsula at the northeast of Australia, at elevations less than 500 metres and often in coastal mangroves.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Big-eared flying fox is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 239 grams
- Pemba flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 233 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fijian monkey-faced bat weighting only 256 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat weighting only 48 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox weighting only 872 grams
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Big-eared flying fox
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sun-tailed monkey
- Dwarf slit-faced bat
- Rio Mayo titi
- Günther’s dik-dik
- Brown’s pademelon
- Chiapan deer mouse
- Cuvier’s beaked whale
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Large-eared pied bat
- Colombian white-faced capuchin
Animals with the same weight as a Big-eared flying fox
What other animals weight around 365 grams (0.8 lbs)?
- Geelvink Bay flying fox weighting 351 grams
- Goya tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Guayaquil squirrel weighting 433 grams
- Japen rat weighting 380 grams
- White-headed marmoset weighting 342 grams
- Slender-tailed squirrel weighting 427 grams
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat weighting 301 grams
- Brown-eared woolly opossum weighting 351 grams
- Sulawesi flying fox weighting 383 grams
- Allen’s woodrat weighting 368 grams
Animals with the same size as a Big-eared flying fox
Also reaching around 21.1 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Isarog striped shrew-rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Javanese flying squirrel gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Amur hedgehog gets as big as 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ladak pika gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Allen’s cotton rat gets as big as 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sonoran woodrat gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Highland tuco-tuco gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- European hedgehog gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mentawai squirrel gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky flying squirrel gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)