How many baby Big free-tailed bats are in a litter?
A Big free-tailed bat (Nyctinomops macrotis) 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 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Molossidae family (genus: Nyctinomops). An adult Big free-tailed bat grows up to a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″).
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 big free-tailed bat (Nyctinomops macrotis) is a bat species found in South, North and Central America.
Other animals of the family Molossidae
Big free-tailed bat is a member of the Molossidae, as are these animals:
- Medje free-tailed bat weighting only 42 grams
- Peters’s flat-headed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s flat-headed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cinnamon dog-faced bat weighting only 35 grams
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf bonneted bat weighting only 12 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat weighting only 17 grams
- Wagner’s bonneted bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Para dog-faced bat weighting only 12 grams
- Egyptian free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Big free-tailed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Silver dik-dik
- Black-spotted cuscus
- Lesser false vampire bat
- Parti-coloured bat
- Red fruit bat
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
- Mountain cuscus
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat
Animals with the same weight as a Big free-tailed bat
What other animals weight around 18 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Egyptian free-tailed bat weighting 17 grams
- Woodland dormouse weighting 20 grams
- Chinese mole shrew weighting 20 grams
- Northern ghost bat weighting 16 grams
- Père David’s vole weighting 19 grams
- Cape spiny mouse weighting 21 grams
- Peruvian vesper mouse weighting 20 grams
- Louise’s spiny mouse weighting 20 grams
- Wilson’s spiny mouse weighting 18 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart weighting 17 grams