How many baby Red fruit bats are in a litter?
A Red fruit bat (Stenoderma rufum) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Stenoderma). An adult Red fruit bat grows up to a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 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 red fruit bat or red fig-eating bat (Stenoderma rufum) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae, in the monotypic genus Stenoderma. It is found in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Red fruit bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Godman’s long-tailed bat weighting only 7 grams
- Tonatia silvicola weighting only 32 grams
- Gnome fruit-eating bat weighting only 10 grams
- Southern long-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Micronycteris nicefori with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat weighting only 19 grams
- Brown flower bat weighting only 16 grams
- Western long-tongued bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-toothed tailless bat weighting only 15 grams
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red fruit bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Four-striped ground squirrel
- Bonnet macaque
- Canyon bat
- Black duiker
- Dusky fruit bat
- Cape serotine
- Spectacled flying fox
- Common wallaroo
- Springbok
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle
Animals with the same weight as a Red fruit bat
What other animals weight around 21 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis weighting 23 grams
- Lesser long-nosed bat weighting 22 grams
- Volcano harvest mouse weighting 19 grams
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat weighting 18 grams
- Northern short-tailed shrew weighting 18 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat weighting 18 grams
- Parnell’s mustached bat weighting 19 grams
- Altiplano grass mouse weighting 20 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse weighting 21 grams
- Louise’s spiny mouse weighting 20 grams
Animals with the same size as a Red fruit bat
Also reaching around 6.1 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Balochistan gerbil gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert long-eared bat gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Delicate vesper mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy shrew tenrec gets as big as 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Panamint kangaroo rat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- San Joaquin pocket mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southeastern shrew gets as big as 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian slit-faced bat gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)