How many baby Jamaican fruit bats are in a litter?
A Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) 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 145 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 10 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Artibeus). An adult Jamaican fruit bat grows up to a size of 7.8 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 Jamaican, common or Mexican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) is a fruit-eating bat native to Mexico, through Central America to northwestern South America, as well as the Greater and many of the Lesser Antilles. It is also an uncommon resident of the Southern Bahamas. Populations east of the Andes in South America are now usually regarded a separate species, the flat-faced fruit-eating bat (A. planirostris). The distinctive features of the Jamaican fruit bat (which however are shared by some of its relatives) include the absence of an external tail and a minimal, U-shaped interfemoral membrane.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Jamaican fruit bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Bidentate yellow-eared bat weighting only 11 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat becoming 10 years old
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat weighting only 15 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Leach’s single leaf bat weighting only 8 grams
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat weighting only 26 grams
- Ipanema bat weighting only 18 grams
- White-winged vampire bat weighting only 36 grams
- Davies’s big-eared bat weighting only 18 grams
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat weighting only 9 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Jamaican fruit bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- African manatee
- Moustached guenon
- White-tailed deer
- Bushy-tailed mongoose
- Four-horned antelope
- South Andean deer
- Eastern woolly lemur
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat
- Leadbeater’s possum
- Arabian oryx
Animals that get as old as a Jamaican fruit bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Whiskered bat with 9.25 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with 12 years
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with 12 years
- European hare with 12 years
- Greater musky fruit bat with 8 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 8 years
- Edible dormouse with 9 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with 12 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon with 11.33 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Jamaican fruit bat
What other animals weight around 42 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Black-tailed mouse weighting 40 grams
- Saunder’s vlei rat weighting 34 grams
- Andean big-eared mouse weighting 38 grams
- Grayish mouse opossum weighting 47 grams
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse weighting 38 grams
- Moss-forest rat weighting 46 grams
- Moss-forest rat weighting 45 grams
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse weighting 39 grams
- Musso’s fish-eating rat weighting 40 grams
- European snow vole weighting 48 grams
Animals with the same size as a Jamaican fruit bat
Also reaching around 7.8 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Sandy inland mouse gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western harvest mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large slit-faced bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Delicate vesper mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- American water shrew gets as big as 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Least pygmy squirrel gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Steppe mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-eared pocket mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)