How many baby Bulmer’s fruit bats are in a litter?
A Bulmer’s fruit bat (Aproteles bulmerae) 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 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Aproteles). An adult Bulmer’s fruit bat grows up to a size of 24.5 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.
Bulmer’s fruit bat (Aproteles bulmerae) is a megabat endemic to New Guinea. It is listed as a critically endangered species due to habitat loss and hunting. It is the only member of the genus Aproteles. Due to its imperiled status, it is identified by the Alliance for Zero Extinction as a species in danger of imminent extinction.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Bulmer’s fruit bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Horsfield’s fruit bat weighting only 56 grams
- Hammer-headed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 30 grams
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-bellied fruit bat weighting only 47 grams
- Mariana fruit bat weighting only 458 grams
- Lesser flying fox weighting only 296 grams
- Pygmy fruit bat weighting only 15 grams
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bulmer’s fruit bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tarabundí vole
- Whiptail wallaby
- California sea lion
- Amazonian manatee
- Diana monkey
- Red kangaroo
- Black crested gibbon
- Greater long-nosed bat
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo
- Maroon leaf monkey
Animals with the same weight as a Bulmer’s fruit bat
What other animals weight around 621 grams (1.37 lbs)?
- Kashmir flying squirrel weighting 510 grams
- Superagüi lion tamarin weighting 605 grams
- Brush rabbit weighting 716 grams
- Eastern spotted skunk weighting 568 grams
- White-lipped tamarin weighting 509 grams
- Western gray squirrel weighting 704 grams
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine weighting 736 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Rakali weighting 626 grams
- Black flying fox weighting 609 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bulmer’s fruit bat
Also reaching around 24.5 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Koslov’s pika gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Common dwarf mongoose gets as big as 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Baja California rock squirrel gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pallas’s squirrel gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Speckled dasyure gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Palawan montane squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Meerkat gets as big as 28.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Grey-headed flying fox gets as big as 27.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Peters’s squirrel gets as big as 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)