How many baby Philippine flying lemurs are in a litter?
A Philippine flying lemur (Cynocephalus volans) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 62 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 35 grams (0.08 lbs) and measure 25.4 cm (0′ 10″). They are a member of the Cynocephalidae family (genus: Cynocephalus). An adult Philippine flying lemur grows up to a size of 38 cm (1′ 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 Philippine flying lemur or Philippine colugo (Cynocephalus volans), known locally as kagwang, is one of two species of colugo or “flying lemurs”. It is monotypic of its genus. Although called a flying lemur, it cannot fly and is not a lemur. Instead, it glides as it leaps among trees.The kagwang belongs to the order Dermoptera that contains only two species, one of which is found in the Philippines, while the other, the Sunda flying lemur, is found in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. Recent research from genetic analysis suggests two other species, the Bornean flying lemur and the Javan flying lemur, may exist, as well, but they have yet to be officially classified.Both species of Dermoptera are classified under the superorder Euarchonta, which includes treeshrews and primates, as well as an extinct order of mammals, the Plesiadapiformes.
Other animals of the family Cynocephalidae
Philippine flying lemur is a member of the Cynocephalidae, as are these animals:
- Sunda flying lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sunda flying lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Philippine flying lemur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Big free-tailed bat
- Weasel sportive lemur
- Himalayan tahr
- Ringed seal
- Koslov’s pika
- Eastern forest bat
- Black crested gibbon
- Southern forest bat
- Sun bear
- Sumatran rhinoceros
Animals with the same weight as a Philippine flying lemur
What other animals weight around 1.25 kg (2.76 lbs)?
- Back-striped weasel usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Pichi usually reaching 1.49 kgs (3.28 lbs)
- Grandidier’s mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 1.49 kgs (3.28 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.43 kgs (3.15 lbs)
- Big-eared opossum usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- Fennec fox usually reaching 1.32 kgs (2.91 lbs)
- Hispaniolan hutia usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Woylie usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Philippine flying lemur
Also reaching around 38 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Bahamian hutia gets as big as 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Yarkand hare gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- White-tailed prairie dog gets as big as 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Striped polecat gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Large-spotted civet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Guianan squirrel monkey gets as big as 32.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Long-nosed echymipera gets as big as 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Greater bilby gets as big as 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)