How many baby Bougainville monkey-faced bats are in a litter?
A Bougainville monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex anceps) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 17 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteralopex). An adult Bougainville monkey-faced bat grows up to a size of 26.2 cm (0′ 11″).
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 Bougainville monkey-faced bat (Pteralopex anceps) is a megabat endemic to Bougainville Island of Papua New Guinea and Choiseul Island of the Solomon Islands in Melanesia.It inhabits mature forests in upland areas, within the Autonomous Region of Bougainville and Bougouriba Province.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Bougainville monkey-faced bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 53 grams
- Philippine dawn bat weighting only 78 grams
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat weighting only 172 grams
- Sunda flying fox weighting only 466 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weighting only 122 grams
- Montane monkey-faced bat weighting only 290 grams
- Pygmy fruit bat weighting only 15 grams
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat weighting only 44 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Bougainville monkey-faced bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Alpine musk deer
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Stephen’s woodrat
- Western red colobus
- Grandidier’s mongoose
- African sheath-tailed bat
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle
- Weasel sportive lemur
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Central American squirrel monkey
Animals with the same weight as a Bougainville monkey-faced bat
What other animals weight around 573 grams (1.26 lbs)?
- Solomons flying fox weighting 661 grams
- Big pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel weighting 665 grams
- Forest giant squirrel weighting 630 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Sunda flying fox weighting 466 grams
- Brazilian guinea pig weighting 524 grams
- Peruvian tuco-tuco weighting 489 grams
- White-faced spiny tree-rat weighting 610 grams
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 642 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bougainville monkey-faced bat
Also reaching around 26.2 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Guadalcanal rat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Calabar angwantibo gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-tailed prairie dog gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Slender-tailed squirrel gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- San José brush rabbit gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Central American squirrel monkey gets as big as 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Great Key Island giant rat gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Cape ground squirrel gets as big as 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- King rat (animal) gets as big as 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Gray four-eyed opossum gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)