How many baby Dusky fruit bats are in a litter?
A Dusky fruit bat (Penthetor lucasi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 253 grams (0.56 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Penthetor). An adult Dusky fruit bat grows up to a size of 44.4 cm (1′ 6″).
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 Dusky fruit bat, (Penthetor lucasi) is a species of bat found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Dusky fruit bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Egyptian fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-eared flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Comoro rousette weighting only 45 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 226 grams
- Hammer-headed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pteropus temmincki weighting only 250 grams
- Great flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy fruit bat weighting only 15 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat weighting only 95 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Dusky fruit bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Delacour’s langur
- Dwarf musk deer
- Red-necked pademelon
- PudĂș
- North Atlantic right whale
- Scaly-tailed possum
- Big hairy armadillo
- Bharal
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat
- Squirrel glider
Animals with the same weight as a Dusky fruit bat
What other animals weight around 35 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Four-toed rice tenrec weighting 35 grams
- Desert mouse weighting 37 grams
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse weighting 32 grams
- Montane vole weighting 42 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse weighting 41 grams
- Spotted bolo mouse weighting 37 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat weighting 39 grams
- Greater false vampire bat weighting 39 grams
- Perote mouse weighting 40 grams
- Delectable soft-furred mouse weighting 35 grams