How many baby Little collared fruit bats are in a litter?
A Little collared fruit bat (Myonycteris torquata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 11 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Myonycteris). An adult Little collared fruit bat grows up to a size of 9.9 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 little collared fruit bat (Myonycteris torquata) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae found in Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Little collared fruit bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Ceram fruit bat weighting only 228 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 30 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting only 21 grams
- Pteropus gilliardi weighting only 403 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat weighting only 30 grams
- Angolan rousette weighting only 67 grams
- Great flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weighting only 122 grams
- Short-palated fruit bat weighting only 28 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Little collared fruit bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Toolache wallaby
- Whiskered flying squirrel
- Tufted deer
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
- Robert’s snow vole
- Long-fingered triok
- Wroughton’s free-tailed bat
- Grant’s gazelle
- Little red flying fox
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo
Animals with the same weight as a Little collared fruit bat
What other animals weight around 44 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Indian roundleaf bat weighting 44 grams
- Hainan gymnure weighting 52 grams
- Comoro rousette weighting 45 grams
- Hairy-tailed mole weighting 51 grams
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat weighting 47 grams
- Wagner’s bonneted bat weighting 36 grams
- European snow vole weighting 48 grams
- Large Japanese field mouse weighting 43 grams
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat weighting 42 grams
- Nayarit mouse weighting 40 grams
Animals with the same size as a Little collared fruit bat
Also reaching around 9.9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Flat-headed vole gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bank vole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smith’s shrew gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western heather vole gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray spiny mouse gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rudd’s mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Alpine chipmunk gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)