How many baby Black flying foxs are in a litter?
A Black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) 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 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus). An adult Black flying fox grows up to a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″).
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 black flying fox or black fruit bat (Pteropus alecto) is a bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is among the largest bats in the world, but is considerably smaller than the largest species in its genus, Pteropus. The black flying fox is native to Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia. It is not a threatened species.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Black flying fox is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Long-tailed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-haired rousette weighting only 104 grams
- Little red flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat weighting only 95 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Montane monkey-faced bat weighting only 290 grams
- Dayak fruit bat weighting only 81 grams
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat weighting only 116 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat weighting only 66 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Black flying fox
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat
- La Plata dolphin
- Blue duiker
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat
- Southern muriqui
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Delicate mouse
- Western brush wallaby
- Dwarf musk deer
- Pygmy ringtail possum
Animals with the same weight as a Black flying fox
What other animals weight around 609 grams (1.34 lbs)?
- Giant pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Eastern lowland olingo weighting 620 grams
- Seychelles fruit bat weighting 491 grams
- Solomons flying fox weighting 661 grams
- Variable pocket gopher weighting 615 grams
- New Guinea waterside rat weighting 526 grams
- Western gray squirrel weighting 704 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat weighting 489 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel weighting 510 grams
- Black lion tamarin weighting 656 grams
Animals with the same size as a Black flying fox
Also reaching around 25.4 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Mariana fruit bat gets as big as 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Vogelkop ringtail possum gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel gets as big as 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Lyle’s flying fox gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel gets as big as 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Turkestan red pika gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Microcebus coquereli gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Back-striped weasel gets as big as 28.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Brush rabbit gets as big as 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)