How many baby Cave nectar bats are in a litter?
A Cave nectar bat (Eonycteris spelaea) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 146 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 14 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Eonycteris). An adult Cave nectar bat grows up to a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″).
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 cave nectar bat, dawn bat, common dawn bat, common nectar bat or lesser dawn bat (Eonycteris spelaea) is a species of megabat within the genus Eonycteris. The scientific name of the species was first published by Dobson in 1871.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Cave nectar bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat weighting only 489 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Minor epauletted fruit bat weighting only 44 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 236 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting only 21 grams
- Long-tailed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gilliard’s flying fox weighting only 406 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 226 grams
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 43 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Cave nectar bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Tasmanian pademelon
- Chocolate wattled bat
- Indian flying fox
- Sumatran rhinoceros
- Black-rumped agouti
- Black capuchin
- Atlantic titi
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Banded hare-wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Cave nectar bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Aders’s duiker with 4 years
- White-bellied duiker with 5.25 years
- Little free-tailed bat with 5 years
- Woodland dormouse with 5.75 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with 5 years
- Great gerbil with 4 years
- Rufous horseshoe bat with 5 years
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with 4.25 years
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 5.17 years
- Gansu pika with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Cave nectar bat
What other animals weight around 58 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Rupp’s mouse weighting 49 grams
- Indian bush rat weighting 60 grams
- Spectacled dormouse weighting 68 grams
- Córdoba vesper mouse weighting 49 grams
- Euryoryzomys nitidus weighting 55 grams
- Cliff chipmunk weighting 63 grams
- Nephelomys keaysi weighting 58 grams
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole weighting 56 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 50 grams
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse weighting 65 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cave nectar bat
Also reaching around 12.4 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican mouse opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Siberian chipmunk gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Habbema dasyure gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mongolian gerbil gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared hopping mouse gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Irenomys gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Luzon forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)