How many baby Insular flying foxs are in a litter?
A Insular flying fox (Pteropus tonganus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 167 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 96 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus). An adult Insular flying fox grows up to a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 insular flying fox or Pacific flying fox (Pteropus tonganus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is geographically widespread, the most widespread flying fox in the Pacific: it is found in American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa (where it is called pe’a fanua, pe’a fai and taulaga), the Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Insular flying fox is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Angolan rousette weighting only 68 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat weighting only 48 grams
- Greater musky fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 165 grams
- Minor epauletted fruit bat weighting only 44 grams
- Banks flying fox weighting only 210 grams
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 29 grams
- Long-haired rousette weighting only 104 grams
- Zenker’s fruit bat weighting only 21 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting only 21 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Insular flying fox
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Smoky flying squirrel
- Greater grison
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
- Desert long-eared bat
- Short-beaked echidna
- Ashy black titi
- Atlantic bamboo rat
- Tana River mangabey
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
- Preuss’s red colobus
Animals with the same weight as a Insular flying fox
What other animals weight around 560 grams (1.23 lbs)?
- Pied tamarin weighting 465 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel weighting 510 grams
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 642 grams
- JunÃn red squirrel weighting 482 grams
- Allen’s squirrel weighting 465 grams
- Cape ground squirrel weighting 572 grams
- Bismarck giant rat weighting 612 grams
- Variable pocket gopher weighting 615 grams
- Greater bandicoot rat weighting 583 grams
- Northern quoll weighting 477 grams
Animals with the same size as a Insular flying fox
Also reaching around 17.7 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Afghan pika gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Goldman’s woodrat gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Palawan treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sulawesi flying fox gets as big as 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Richardson’s ground squirrel gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)