How many baby Big-eared woolly bats are in a litter?
A Big-eared woolly bat (Chrotopterus auritus) 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 43 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 374 grams (0.82 lbs) and measure 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Chrotopterus). An adult Big-eared woolly bat grows up to a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″).
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-eared woolly bat or (Peters’s) woolly false vampire bat (Chrotopterus auritus) is a species of bat, belonging to the Order Chiroptera and Family Phyllostomidae.The name Chrotopterus is derived from Greek roots chariots (skin, color), and pteron (wing). The epithet auritus refers to the large ears.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Big-eared woolly bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Velvety fruit-eating bat weighting only 16 grams
- Greater round-eared bat weighting only 27 grams
- Tailed tailless bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf little fruit bat weighting only 9 grams
- Tricolored big-eared bat weighting only 8 grams
- White-throated round-eared bat weighting only 32 grams
- Micronycteris brachyotis weighting only 10 grams
- Ega long-tongued bat weighting only 49 grams
- Goldman’s nectar bat weighting only 21 grams
- Micronycteris sylvestris weighting only 8 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Big-eared woolly bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Montane guinea pig
- Western rock elephant shrew
- Natal red rock hare
- Peale’s free-tailed bat
- South American sea lion
- Venezuelan red howler
- Eastern forest bat
- Six-banded armadillo
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Bechstein’s bat
Animals with the same weight as a Big-eared woolly bat
What other animals weight around 78 grams (0.17 lbs)?
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 68 grams
- Nilgiri striped squirrel weighting 70 grams
- Oecomys superans weighting 73 grams
- Highveld gerbil weighting 89 grams
- Goliath shrew weighting 87 grams
- Amazon dwarf squirrel weighting 92 grams
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat weighting 71 grams
- Sundevall’s jird weighting 69 grams
- Central American dwarf squirrel weighting 87 grams
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat weighting 90 grams
Animals with the same size as a Big-eared woolly bat
Also reaching around 10.3 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Serra do Mar grass mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dusky caenolestid gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- California mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Visagie’s golden mole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Flat-headed vole gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cozumel harvest mouse gets as big as 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silver mountain vole gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy tarsier gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)