How many baby Long-tongued nectar bats are in a litter?
A Long-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 125 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Macroglossus). An adult Long-tongued nectar bat grows up to a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″).
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-tongued nectar bat (Macroglossus minimus), also known as the northern blossom bat, honey nectar bat, least blossom-bat, dagger-toothed long-nosed fruit bat, and lesser long-tongued fruit bat, is a species of megabat. M. minimus is one of the smallest species in the family Pteropodidae, with an average length of 60–85 mm. It has a reddish-brown colouring with relatively long hair compared to the other species. The hair on the abdomen is a lighter colour, and a dark brown stripe runs bilaterally down the top of the head and back.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Long-tongued nectar bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Spectacled flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 78 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat weighting only 53 grams
- Ornate flying fox weighting only 335 grams
- Hammer-headed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fijian monkey-faced bat weighting only 256 grams
- Lesser musky fruit bat weighting only 47 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sunda flying fox weighting only 466 grams
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-tongued nectar bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- South American fur seal
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Goitered gazelle
- Ollala brothers’s titi
- Striped possum
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo
- Red-bellied titi
- White-footed sportive lemur
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Highland brush mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tongued nectar bat
What other animals weight around 16 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Bonda mastiff bat weighting 17 grams
- Ozimops beccarii weighting 14 grams
- Peale’s free-tailed bat weighting 18 grams
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat weighting 14 grams
- Chinese shrew mole weighting 16 grams
- Seba’s short-tailed bat weighting 19 grams
- Maggie Taylor’s roundleaf bat weighting 16 grams
- Ryukyu mouse weighting 14 grams
- Peromyscus maniculatus weighting 19 grams
- Tickell’s bat weighting 16 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-tongued nectar bat
Also reaching around 6.8 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Usambara shrew gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-eared pocket mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater mouse-eared bat gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiga shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Antillean fruit-eating bat gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)