How many baby Great fruit-eating bats are in a litter?
A Great fruit-eating bat (Artibeus lituratus) 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 106 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 5.8 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Artibeus). An adult Great fruit-eating bat grows up to a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″).
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 fruit-eating bat (Artibeus lituratus) is a bat species in the family Phyllostomidae from South and Central America. It is found from Mexico to Brazil and Argentina, as well as in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Martinique, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago.They are 10.5 g at birth and grow to 65 g as adults.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Great fruit-eating bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Dwarf little fruit bat weighting only 9 grams
- Spectral bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s nectar bat weighting only 7 grams
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat weighting only 14 grams
- Greater broad-nosed bat weighting only 37 grams
- Large fruit-eating bat weighting only 61 grams
- Orange nectar bat weighting only 13 grams
- Hairy-legged vampire bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-winged vampire bat weighting only 36 grams
- Pale spear-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Great fruit-eating bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum
- White-bellied duiker
- Lar gibbon
- Arctocephalus forsteri
- Barbary sheep
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat
- Silky anteater
- Prevost’s squirrel
- Whiskered bat
Animals with the same weight as a Great fruit-eating bat
What other animals weight around 59 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- African wading rat weighting 62 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus weighting 60 grams
- Flat-headed vole weighting 50 grams
- Pygmy treeshrew weighting 70 grams
- Southern red-sided opossum weighting 48 grams
- Champion’s tree mouse weighting 50 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat weighting 67 grams
- Nephelomys auriventer weighting 60 grams
- Guinea multimammate mouse weighting 64 grams
- Andean mouse weighting 69 grams
Animals with the same size as a Great fruit-eating bat
Also reaching around 9.5 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Usambara shrew gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eurasian water shrew gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Black-eared squirrel gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland vole gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Creeping vole gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Habbema dasyure gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)