How many baby Small flying foxs are in a litter?
A Small flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 91 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Pteropus). An adult Small flying fox grows up to a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″).
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 small flying fox, island flying fox or variable flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus) is a species of flying fox in the family Pteropodidae. It is found in Australia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Small flying fox is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Ashy-headed flying fox weighting only 524 grams
- Philippine dawn bat weighting only 78 grams
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat weighting only 135 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat weighting only 47 grams
- Little collared fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 107 grams
- Mariana fruit bat weighting only 458 grams
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat raching a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat weighting only 53 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Small flying fox
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Climbing shrew
- Eastern forest bat
- Kivu shrew
- Southern long-nosed bat
- Short-snouted elephant shrew
- Black flying squirrel
- Black-rumped agouti
- Green bush squirrel
- Sheep
- Chamois
Animals with the same weight as a Small flying fox
What other animals weight around 434 grams (0.96 lbs)?
- Columbian ground squirrel weighting 471 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher weighting 350 grams
- Long-tailed chinchilla weighting 480 grams
- Cotton-top tamarin weighting 463 grams
- Natterer’s tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Greater guinea pig weighting 460 grams
- Lesser bilby weighting 364 grams
- Guayaquil squirrel weighting 433 grams
- Horse-tailed squirrel weighting 358 grams
- Pousargues’s mongoose weighting 362 grams
Animals with the same size as a Small flying fox
Also reaching around 20.4 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Lesser stick-nest rat gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Barbary ground squirrel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Plains pocket gopher gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sulawesi flying fox gets as big as 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Highland tuco-tuco gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Desert hedgehog gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kintampo rope squirrel gets as big as 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)