How many baby Greater musky fruit bats are in a litter?
A Greater musky fruit bat (Ptenochirus jagori) 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 125 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 17 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Ptenochirus). An adult Greater musky fruit bat grows up to a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 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 greater musky fruit bat (Ptenochirus jagori) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Philippines. It was named by Peters for Fedor Jagor.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Greater musky fruit bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Pteropus brunneus weighting only 200 grams
- Minor epauletted fruit bat weighting only 44 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 29 grams
- Little collared fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted-winged fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- East African little collared fruit bat weighting only 53 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting only 21 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox weighting only 351 grams
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 233 grams
- Fijian monkey-faced bat weighting only 256 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Greater musky fruit bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Raffray’s bandicoot
- Chacma baboon
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat
- Long-finned pilot whale
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
- Fraser’s dolphin
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
- Western white-eared giant rat
- Admiralty Island cuscus
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Greater musky fruit bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8 years:
- Congo rope squirrel with 9.5 years
- Plains viscacha with 9.33 years
- Tasmanian devil with 8.17 years
- American hog-nosed skunk with 7 years
- Arctic hare with 7 years
- Woylie with 6.5 years
- Plantain squirrel with 9.58 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 7 years
- Marbled polecat with 8.92 years
- Long-tailed weasel with 7.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater musky fruit bat
What other animals weight around 79 grams (0.17 lbs)?
- Guinea multimammate mouse weighting 64 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Low’s squirrel weighting 85 grams
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 93 grams
- Tiny tuco-tuco weighting 92 grams
- Oryzomys couesi weighting 69 grams
- Splendid climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Southern climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Master leaf-eared mouse weighting 68 grams
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur weighting 78 grams