How many baby Long-tailed fruit bats are in a litter?
A Long-tailed fruit bat (Notopteris macdonaldi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Notopteris). An adult Long-tailed fruit bat grows up to a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″).
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 long-tailed fruit bat, long-tailed blossom bat, or Fijian blossom bat (Notopteris macdonaldi) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Fiji and Vanuatu. They roost as large colonies in caves and forage in a range of lowland and montane habitats. It is threatened by exploitation and disturbance of its roosting caves, hunting, and tourism.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Long-tailed fruit bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat weighting only 25 grams
- Insular flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moss-forest blossom bat weighting only 20 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat weighting only 53 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Woodford’s fruit bat weighting only 36 grams
- Swift fruit bat weighting only 66 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat weighting only 56 grams
- Gilliard’s flying fox weighting only 406 grams
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-tailed fruit bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Diana monkey
- Macroscelides proboscideus
- Indian pangolin
- Banteng
- Fire-footed rope squirrel
- Southern African vlei rat
- Cape serotine
- Bulmer’s fruit bat
- Thumbless bat
- Tickell’s bat
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed fruit bat
What other animals weight around 68 grams (0.15 lbs)?
- Nephelomys auriventer weighting 60 grams
- Mountain pocket gopher weighting 81 grams
- Bunny rat weighting 79 grams
- Hainan gymnure weighting 58 grams
- Slender squirrel weighting 74 grams
- Mashona mole-rat weighting 65 grams
- Forest Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Norway lemming weighting 67 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby weighting 67 grams
- Lesser hamster-rat weighting 75 grams