How many baby New Britain naked-backed fruit bats are in a litter?
A New Britain naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia praedatrix) 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 32 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Dobsonia). An adult New Britain naked-backed fruit bat grows up to a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″).
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 New Britain naked-backed fruit bat (Dobsonia praedatrix) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to New Britain island in northern Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
New Britain naked-backed fruit bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Hammer-headed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Geoffroy’s rousette weighting only 74 grams
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting only 25 grams
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 200 grams
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 48 grams
- Pteropus brunneus weighting only 200 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox weighting only 872 grams
- Madagascan rousette with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 465 grams
Animals that share a litter size with New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Underwood’s bonneted bat
- Madagascan fruit bat
- Southeastern myotis
- Tufted capuchin
- Little forest bat
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- Killer whale
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat
- Long-winged tomb bat
- Bongo (antelope)
Animals with the same weight as a New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
What other animals weight around 179 grams (0.39 lbs)?
- American pika weighting 158 grams
- White-tailed antsangy weighting 205 grams
- Greedy olalla rat weighting 206 grams
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat weighting 165 grams
- Dusky rat weighting 146 grams
- Indian hedgehog weighting 171 grams
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel weighting 175 grams
- Ashy chinchilla rat weighting 194 grams
- Stein’s rat weighting 151 grams
- Nelson’s woodrat weighting 198 grams
Animals with the same size as a New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
Also reaching around 16.1 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Greater hedgehog tenrec gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan pika gets as big as 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sugar glider gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dayak fruit bat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Amazon weasel gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Maxomys baeodon gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Roman mole gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kimberley rock rat gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)