How many baby Grey-headed flying foxs are in a litter?
A Grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 187 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 70 grams (0.15 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus). An adult Grey-headed flying fox grows up to a size of 27.2 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 grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) is a megabat native to Australia. The species shares mainland Australia with three other members of the genus Pteropus: the little red P. scapulatus, spectacled P. conspicillatus, and the black P. alecto.The grey-headed flying fox is endemic to the south-eastern forested areas of Australia, principally east of the Great Dividing Range. Its range extends approximately from Bundaberg in Queensland to Geelong in Victoria, with outlying colonies in Ingham and Finch Hatton in the north, and in Adelaide in the south. In the southern parts of its range it occupies more extreme latitudes than any other Pteropus species.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Grey-headed flying fox is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Hammer-headed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ashy-headed flying fox weighting only 524 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern tube-nosed bat weighting only 48 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat weighting only 55 grams
- Minor epauletted fruit bat weighting only 44 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette weighting only 74 grams
- Zenker’s fruit bat weighting only 21 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat weighting only 47 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Grey-headed flying fox
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- African sheath-tailed bat
- Grant’s forest shrew
- Irrawaddy dolphin
- Green acouchi
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Rufous horseshoe bat
- Hirola
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Brown long-eared bat
- Flores woolly bat
Animals with the same weight as a Grey-headed flying fox
What other animals weight around 702 grams (1.55 lbs)?
- Aotus infulatus weighting 800 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher weighting 650 grams
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog weighting 690 grams
- Giant otter shrew weighting 685 grams
- European mink weighting 567 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel weighting 700 grams
- Weasel sportive lemur weighting 670 grams
- Bengal mongoose weighting 741 grams
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat weighting 573 grams
- Red-tailed sportive lemur weighting 763 grams
Animals with the same size as a Grey-headed flying fox
Also reaching around 27.2 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Bengal mongoose gets as big as 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Amazon bamboo rat gets as big as 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pied tamarin gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Cape dune mole-rat gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bolivian tuco-tuco gets as big as 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Eastern spotted skunk gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Sardinian pika gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lutrine opossum gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)