How many baby Common blossom bats are in a litter?
A Common blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 808 grams (1.78 lbs) and measure 24 cm (0′ 10″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Syconycteris). An adult Common blossom bat grows up to a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″).
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 common blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) also known as the southern blossom bat or Queensland blossom bat, is a megabat in the family Pteropodidae.The common blossom bat feeds mostly on nectar and pollen rather than fruit.It is one of eight Pteropodidae species on mainland Australia. It is one of the smallest of all nectarivorous megabats.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Common blossom bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Long-haired rousette weighting only 104 grams
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 53 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting only 21 grams
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 78 grams
- Hammer-headed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Solomons flying fox weighting only 661 grams
- Admiralty flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cave nectar bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater musky fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spectacled flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common blossom bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Günther’s dik-dik
- Black-eared flying fox
- Parti-coloured bat
- Hispid pocket gopher
- Daubenton’s bat
- Insular single leaf bat
- Philippine pygmy squirrel
- Red-legged pademelon
- Canyon bat
- Pennant’s colobus
Animals with the same weight as a Common blossom bat
What other animals weight around 17 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Drylands vesper mouse weighting 20 grams
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse weighting 20 grams
- Brown mastiff bat weighting 15 grams
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat weighting 14 grams
- Southern red-backed vole weighting 19 grams
- Gould’s wattled bat weighting 14 grams
- Broad-toothed tailless bat weighting 15 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat weighting 15 grams
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat weighting 20 grams
- Davies’s big-eared bat weighting 18 grams
Animals with the same size as a Common blossom bat
Also reaching around 6.7 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Jamaican flower bat gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Plains pocket mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-sided opossum gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Trident bat gets as big as 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tundra shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Western harvest mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Steppe mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Balochistan gerbil gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)