How many baby Harpy fruit bats are in a litter?
A Harpy fruit bat (Harpyionycteris whiteheadi) 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 133 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Harpyionycteris). An adult Harpy fruit bat grows up to a size of 15.2 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 harpy fruit bat (Harpyionycteris whiteheadi) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the Philippines.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Harpy fruit bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Pteropus brunneus weighting only 200 grams
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 301 grams
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 239 grams
- Gilliard’s flying fox weighting only 406 grams
- Little golden-mantled flying fox weighting only 184 grams
- Mariana fruit bat weighting only 458 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 85 grams
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting only 25 grams
- New Caledonia flying fox weighting only 151 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Harpy fruit bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- White-nosed saki
- Ear-spot squirrel
- Coppery ringtail possum
- Grey seal
- Collared peccary
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Agile gibbon
- Pel’s pouched bat
- Arabian tahr
- Greater mouse-deer
Animals with the same weight as a Harpy fruit bat
What other animals weight around 135 grams (0.3 lbs)?
- Greater Egyptian jerboa weighting 138 grams
- Carpentarian rock rat weighting 123 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat weighting 134 grams
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum weighting 112 grams
- Leadbeater’s possum weighting 137 grams
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum weighting 119 grams
- Zanzibar bushbaby weighting 148 grams
- Tristram’s jird weighting 112 grams
- Giant roundleaf bat weighting 115 grams
- Greater fairy armadillo weighting 130 grams
Animals with the same size as a Harpy fruit bat
Also reaching around 15.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Bridges’s degu gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Congo rope squirrel gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Echigo mole gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Egyptian fruit bat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert hedgehog gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Silky anteater gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western rock elephant shrew gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)