How many baby Woermann’s bats are in a litter?
A Woermann’s bat (Megaloglossus woermanni) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Pteropodidae family (genus: Megaloglossus). An adult Woermann’s bat grows up to a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″).
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.
Woermann’s bat or Woermann’s fruit bat (Megaloglossus woermanni) is a species of megabat in the family Pteropodidae. It is monotypic within the genus Megaloglossus. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Pteropodidae
Woermann’s bat is a member of the Pteropodidae, as are these animals:
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat weighting only 44 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser flying fox weighting only 296 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weighting only 122 grams
- Small flying fox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Minute fruit bat weighting only 26 grams
- New Caledonia flying fox weighting only 151 grams
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat weighting only 95 grams
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat weighting only 135 grams
- Gilliard’s flying fox weighting only 406 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Woermann’s bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Golden bamboo lemur
- Daubenton’s bat
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey
- Melck’s house bat
- Hispaniolan solenodon
- Sika deer
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
- Magdalena rat
- Rufous elephant shrew
- Lemur-like ringtail possum
Animals with the same weight as a Woermann’s bat
What other animals weight around 16 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Southern red-backed vole weighting 19 grams
- Delicate vesper mouse weighting 13 grams
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew weighting 14 grams
- Oldfield mouse weighting 14 grams
- Chestnut short-tailed bat weighting 13 grams
- Bokhara horseshoe bat weighting 15 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 16 grams
- Rock pocket mouse weighting 15 grams
- Little Indian field mouse weighting 13 grams
- Seba’s short-tailed bat weighting 19 grams
Animals with the same size as a Woermann’s bat
Also reaching around 4 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Indiana bat gets as big as 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Grey long-eared bat gets as big as 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine gets as big as 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle gets as big as 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Cursor grass mouse gets as big as 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine gets as big as 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican free-tailed bat gets as big as 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Lesser horseshoe bat gets as big as 3.8 cm (0′ 2″)