How many baby Seba’s short-tailed bats are in a litter?
A Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 114 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Carollia). An adult Seba’s short-tailed bat grows up to a size of 6 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.
Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata) is a common and widespread bat species in the family Phyllostomidae. They are found in Central America, the northern parts of South America, and in the Antilles islands.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Seba’s short-tailed bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat weighting only 35 grams
- Short-headed broad-nosed bat weighting only 14 grams
- Marinkelle’s sword-nosed bat weighting only 17 grams
- Large fruit-eating bat weighting only 61 grams
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat becoming 10 years old
- Hairy big-eyed bat weighting only 23 grams
- Fringe-lipped bat weighting only 36 grams
- Long-legged bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Big-eared woolly bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat weighting only 26 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Seba’s short-tailed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lowland paca
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Maroon leaf monkey
- Mona monkey
- Sable antelope
- Eastern bettong
- Wolf’s mona monkey
- Nilgiri langur
- Rufous elephant shrew
Animals that get as old as a Seba’s short-tailed bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12.33 years:
- Mountain beaver with 10 years
- Myotis vivesi with 10 years
- Naked mole-rat with 10 years
- Hog badger with 13.92 years
- Desert rat-kangaroo with 13 years
- Eastern spotted skunk with 10 years
- Black duiker with 10.17 years
- Urial with 13.75 years
- Water deer with 12 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Seba’s short-tailed bat
What other animals weight around 19 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Ethiopian striped mouse weighting 18 grams
- Pygmy rock mouse weighting 20 grams
- Southern grasshopper mouse weighting 21 grams
- San Diego pocket mouse weighting 19 grams
- Brown fruit-eating bat weighting 19 grams
- African smoky mouse weighting 17 grams
- Bank vole weighting 20 grams
- Ruwenzori shrew weighting 18 grams
- Volcano harvest mouse weighting 19 grams
- Moon forest shrew weighting 18 grams
Animals with the same size as a Seba’s short-tailed bat
Also reaching around 6 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Northern pygmy mouse gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Vagrant shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tundra shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender shrew gets as big as 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser striped shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Balochistan gerbil gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Smoky shrew gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)