How many baby Sulawesi rousettes are in a litter?
A Sulawesi rousette (Rousettus celebensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 25 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 8.1 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Rousettus). An adult Sulawesi rousette grows up to a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Sulawesi rousette (Rousettus celebensis) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae endemic to Sulawesi, an island in Indonesia.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Sulawesi rousette is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat weighting only 131 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette weighting only 74 grams
- Lyle’s flying fox weighting only 319 grams
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pteropus gilliardi weighting only 403 grams
- Guam flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mauritian flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moluccan flying fox weighting only 728 grams
- Long-haired rousette weighting only 104 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Sulawesi rousette
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Midas free-tailed bat
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
- Sunda flying lemur
- Grant’s forest shrew
- Potto
- Climbing shrew
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
- Spectacled bear
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
Animals with the same weight as a Sulawesi rousette
What other animals weight around 63 grams (0.14 lbs)?
- Master leaf-eared mouse weighting 68 grams
- Dibbler weighting 72 grams
- Swift fruit bat weighting 66 grams
- Andean mouse weighting 69 grams
- Coast mole weighting 61 grams
- Nephelomys levipes weighting 60 grams
- California chipmunk weighting 73 grams
- One-striped opossum weighting 55 grams
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 60 grams
- Long-clawed mole vole weighting 75 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sulawesi rousette
Also reaching around 10.4 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Juliana’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smith’s shrew gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Small Luzon forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- False water rat gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gould’s mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra vole gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Neblina slender opossum gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sclater’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)