How many baby Pemba flying foxs are in a litter?
A Pemba flying fox (Pteropus voeltzkowi) 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 152 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 96 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus). An adult Pemba flying fox grows up to a size of 17.7 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 Pemba flying fox (Pteropus voeltzkowi) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is endemic to the island of Pemba on the coast of Tanzania.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Pemba flying fox is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Angolan rousette weighting only 67 grams
- Banks flying fox weighting only 210 grams
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 41 grams
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Madagascan flying fox weighting only 122 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat weighting only 47 grams
- Dwarf flying fox weighting only 122 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox weighting only 351 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 85 grams
- Pteropus gilliardi weighting only 403 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Pemba flying fox
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Riverine rabbit
- Davis’s round-eared bat
- Black rhinoceros
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
- Malayan porcupine
- Greater kudu
- Hartebeest
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Fin whale
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
Animals with the same weight as a Pemba flying fox
What other animals weight around 541 grams (1.19 lbs)?
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat weighting 439 grams
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 639 grams
- Peruvian tuco-tuco weighting 489 grams
- Pied tamarin weighting 465 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat weighting 439 grams
- Lesser bamboo rat weighting 472 grams
- Allegheny woodrat weighting 447 grams
- Squirrel-toothed rat weighting 511 grams
- Brazilian guinea pig weighting 524 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel weighting 510 grams