How many baby Madagascan fruit bats are in a litter?
A Madagascan fruit bat (Eidolon dupreanum) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 131 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 50 grams (0.11 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Eidolon). An adult Madagascan fruit bat grows up to a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Madagascan fruit bat (Eidolon dupreanum) is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to Madagascar and is listed as “Vulnerable” by the IUCN because it is hunted as bushmeat.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Madagascan fruit bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Madagascan flying fox weighting only 122 grams
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 78 grams
- Common blossom bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 85 grams
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat raching a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 239 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat weighting only 131 grams
- Black-eared flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Madagascan fruit bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
- Highland brush mouse
- Dwarf musk deer
- Big brown bat
- Herbert River ringtail possum
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin
- Potto
- Kolan vole
- Eastern forest bat
Animals that get as old as a Madagascan fruit bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Swift fox with 20 years
- Scimitar oryx with 20.42 years
- Brown greater galago with 18.75 years
- Bongo (antelope) with 19.42 years
- False killer whale with 22 years
- Dhole with 16 years
- Eastern gray squirrel with 24 years
- Platypus with 22 years
- Subantarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Large Indian civet with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Madagascan fruit bat
What other animals weight around 296 grams (0.65 lbs)?
- Catamarca tuco-tuco weighting 316 grams
- Black-shouldered opossum weighting 258 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 302 grams
- Lundomys weighting 238 grams
- Lowland ringtail possum weighting 300 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat weighting 243 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat weighting 260 grams
- Barbary ground squirrel weighting 251 grams
- Derby’s woolly opossum weighting 328 grams
Animals with the same size as a Madagascan fruit bat
Also reaching around 20.2 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Summit rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Richardson’s ground squirrel gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tropical ground squirrel gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bushy-tailed opossum gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ashy-headed flying fox gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Daurian pika gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Plantain squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bushy-tailed woodrat gets as big as 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)