How many baby Madagascan rousettes are in a litter?
A Madagascan rousette (Rousettus madagascariensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 126 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Rousettus). An adult Madagascan rousette grows up to a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″).
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 rousette (Rousettus madagascariensis) or Madagascar rousette, is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Madagascan rousette is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat weighting only 489 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 200 grams
- Greater musky fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 465 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 236 grams
- Dayak fruit bat weighting only 81 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lyle’s flying fox weighting only 319 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Madagascan rousette
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Muskox
- New Caledonia blossom bat
- New Zealand sea lion
- Eld’s deer
- Greater long-nosed bat
- Sclater’s guenon
- Ozimops planiceps
- Mountain cuscus
- Sei whale
- Red-fronted gazelle
Animals with the same weight as a Madagascan rousette
What other animals weight around 65 grams (0.14 lbs)?
- Small Japanese mole weighting 64 grams
- Blind mole weighting 70 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure weighting 53 grams
- Web-footed tenrec weighting 77 grams
- Eremoryzomys weighting 60 grams
- Euryoryzomys macconnelli weighting 62 grams
- Gansu pika weighting 69 grams
- Gray mouse lemur weighting 68 grams
- Spectacled dormouse weighting 68 grams
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur weighting 70 grams
Animals with the same size as a Madagascan rousette
Also reaching around 12.9 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Shining thicket rat gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Harpy fruit bat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tarabundí vole gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiruromys lamia gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Texas kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bush vlei rat gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern flying squirrel gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)