How many baby Great flying foxs are in a litter?
A Great flying fox (Pteropus neohibernicus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 137 grams (0.3 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus). An adult Great flying fox grows up to a size of 27.9 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 great flying fox (Pteropus neohibernicus), also known as the greater flying fox or Bismarck flying fox, is a species of megabat in the genus Pteropus, found throughout lowland areas of New Guinea and in the Bismarck Archipelago. At up to 1.45 kg (3.2 lb) in weight, it is among the largest bats in the world. It is a gregarious animal which roosts with hundreds or thousands of individuals.It is hunted for human consumption in New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Great flying fox is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Leschenault’s rousette with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat weighting only 32 grams
- New Caledonia flying fox weighting only 151 grams
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 30 grams
- New Caledonia blossom bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Large flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-haired rousette weighting only 104 grams
- Guam flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-collared fruit bat weighting only 18 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Great flying fox
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Javan rusa
- Telefomin cuscus
- Central American squirrel monkey
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Mongoose lemur
- Giant anteater
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
Animals with the same weight as a Great flying fox
What other animals weight around 1.02 kg (2.24 lbs)?
- White-tailed prairie dog weighting 964 grams
- Ashy black titi weighting 992 grams
- Blanford’s fox weighting 994 grams
- Black flying squirrel usually reaching 1.19 kgs (2.62 lbs)
- Indian flying fox weighting 822 grams
- Green acouchi weighting 966 grams
- Hershkovitz’s titi weighting 992 grams
- Striped polecat weighting 812 grams
- Northern olingo usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Green ringtail possum usually reaching 1.15 kgs (2.54 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Great flying fox
Also reaching around 27.9 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Long-tailed giant rat gets as big as 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Brown-tailed mongoose gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Florida naked-tailed rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Western barred bandicoot gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Buffy-tufted marmoset gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Eastern spotted skunk gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Common echymipera gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Brown greater galago gets as big as 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)