How many baby Bechstein’s bats are in a litter?
A Bechstein’s bat (Myotis bechsteini) 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 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Myotis). An adult Bechstein’s bat grows up to a size of 6.9 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.
Bechstein’s bat (Myotis bechsteinii) is a species of vesper bat found in Europe and western Asia, living in extensive areas of woodland.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Bechstein’s bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Moloney’s mimic bat weighting only 8 grams
- Myotis bocagei weighting only 7 grams
- Silver-haired bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silvered bat weighting only 9 grams
- Western broad-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Diminutive serotine weighting only 6 grams
- Abo bat weighting only 6 grams
- Rufous mouse-eared bat weighting only 7 grams
- Rendall’s serotine weighting only 6 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat weighting only 7 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Bechstein’s bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brazilian big-eyed bat
- Olive colobus
- Ringed seal
- Greater spot-nosed monkey
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Cuvier’s gazelle
- Dassie rat
- Hoolock gibbon
- Yellow-backed duiker
- Eastern long-fingered bat
Animals that get as old as a Bechstein’s bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21 years:
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 21 years
- South American fur seal with 21 years
- Finless porpoise with 23 years
- Keen’s myotis with 18.5 years
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 24 years
- Himalayan goral with 17.58 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with 22.83 years
- Takin with 19.5 years
- Black-headed spider monkey with 24 years
- Muskox with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bechstein’s bat
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Ozimops planiceps weighting 9 grams
- Southern ningaui weighting 9 grams
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec weighting 10 grams
- Pilliga mouse weighting 10 grams
- Greater sac-winged bat weighting 8 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat weighting 10 grams
- Natal long-fingered bat weighting 10 grams
- Arctic shrew weighting 8 grams
- Large-eared horseshoe bat weighting 10 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat weighting 10 grams