How many baby Rodrigues flying foxs are in a litter?
A Rodrigues flying fox (Pteropus rodricensis) 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 154 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 45 grams (0.1 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus). An adult Rodrigues flying fox grows up to a size of 27.2 cm (0′ 11″).
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 Rodrigues flying fox or Rodrigues fruit bat (Pteropus rodricensis) is a species of bat in the family Pteropodidae, the flying foxes or fruit bats. It is endemic to Rodrigues, an island in the Indian Ocean belonging to Mauritius. Its natural habitat is tropical lowland forests. The bats are sociable, roost in large groups during the day and feed at night, squeezing the juice and flesh out of fruits. They are hunted by humans for food and their numbers have been dwindling, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated the species as being “endangered”. In an effort to preserve them from extinction, some bats have been caught and are being bred in various zoos around the world.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Rodrigues flying fox is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Horsfield’s fruit bat weighting only 56 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 236 grams
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pteropus brunneus weighting only 200 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat weighting only 465 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat weighting only 39 grams
- Woermann’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 30 grams
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 85 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat weighting only 36 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Rodrigues flying fox
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Townsend’s big-eared bat
- Oecomys concolor
- Coquerel’s sifaka
- Javan rhinoceros
- Striped dolphin
- Domestic yak
- Four-striped ground squirrel
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle
- Northern cave bat
- African pygmy squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Rodrigues flying fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 30 years:
- Gayal with 26.17 years
- Moose with 25 years
- Amazon river dolphin with 30 years
- Gelada with 28 years
- Moose with 27 years
- Northern olingo with 25 years
- African civet with 28 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- Mantled howler with 25 years
- Potto with 26 years
Animals with the same weight as a Rodrigues flying fox
What other animals weight around 256 grams (0.56 lbs)?
- Tome’s spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Yucatan squirrel weighting 225 grams
- Mindanao treeshrew weighting 301 grams
- Western barred bandicoot weighting 230 grams
- Belding’s ground squirrel weighting 272 grams
- Townsend’s pocket gopher weighting 263 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat weighting 209 grams
- Roberto’s spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Lowland ringtail possum weighting 300 grams
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat weighting 296 grams