How many baby Ryukyu flying foxs are in a litter?
A Ryukyu flying fox (Pteropus dasymallus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus). An adult Ryukyu flying fox grows up to a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″).
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 Ryukyu flying fox or Ryukyu fruit bat (Pteropus dasymallus) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Japan, Taiwan, and the Batanes and Babuyan Islands of the Philippines. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss and by hunting for food and the IUCN classify it as “Vulnerable”.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Ryukyu flying fox is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Spectacled flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater musky fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ashy-headed flying fox weighting only 524 grams
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern tube-nosed bat weighting only 48 grams
- Ornate flying fox weighting only 335 grams
- Large flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lyle’s flying fox weighting only 319 grams
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Comoro rousette weighting only 45 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Ryukyu flying fox
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Long-nosed potoroo
- Puku
- Guianan squirrel monkey
- Brazilian brown bat
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Müeller’s gibbon
- Nyala
- Shrew-faced squirrel
- Western long-tongued bat
- Western broad-nosed bat
Animals that get as old as a Ryukyu flying fox
Other animals that usually reach the age of 31 years:
- Weddell seal with 25 years
- Grévy’s zebra with 26 years
- European bison with 27 years
- Japanese macaque with 33 years
- Amazonian manatee with 30 years
- Northern olingo with 25 years
- Leopard seal with 26 years
- Bobcat with 32.33 years
- Campbell’s mona monkey with 33 years
- King colobus with 30.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Ryukyu flying fox
What other animals weight around 491 grams (1.08 lbs)?
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat weighting 398 grams
- Giant golden mole weighting 440 grams
- Junín red squirrel weighting 482 grams
- Black-mantled tamarin weighting 450 grams
- White-footed tamarin weighting 457 grams
- Brazilian yellow-toothed cavy weighting 450 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox weighting 396 grams
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat weighting 397 grams
- Prevost’s squirrel weighting 400 grams
- Allen’s squirrel weighting 465 grams