How many baby Rafinesque’s big-eared bats are in a litter?
A Rafinesque’s big-eared bat (Plecotus rafinesquii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 55 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Plecotus). An adult Rafinesque’s big-eared 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.
Rafinesque’s big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii), sometimes known as the southeastern big-eared bat, is a species of vesper bat native to the southeastern United States.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Rafinesque’s big-eared bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Western broad-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern small-footed myotis weighting only 5 grams
- Brown tube-nosed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Allen’s spotted bat weighting only 5 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat becoming 19.75 years old
- Myotis vivesi becoming 10 years old
- Brazilian brown bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow serotine weighting only 10 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Southern dog-faced bat
- Hartebeest
- Big brown bat
- Koala
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Long-legged bat
- Sambar deer
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Hawaiian monk seal
- Mona monkey
Animals that get as old as a Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10.08 years:
- Yuma myotis with 8.75 years
- Eastern cottontail with 9 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
- Ground cuscus with 12 years
- Common kusimanse with 9 years
- Black-footed ferret with 12 years
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with 12 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with 12 years
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 8.5 years
- Cape fox with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Greater dog-like bat weighting 9 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse weighting 10 grams
- Bates’s slit-faced bat weighting 10 grams
- Little pocket mouse weighting 8 grams
- Small bent-winged bat weighting 8 grams
- Little native mouse weighting 8 grams
- Fischer’s little fruit bat weighting 9 grams
- Temminck’s mouse weighting 8 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat weighting 10 grams
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat weighting 9 grams