How many baby Black-bearded tomb bats are in a litter?
A Black-bearded tomb bat (Taphozous melanopogon) 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 122 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Emballonuridae family (genus: Taphozous). An adult Black-bearded tomb bat grows up to a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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 black-bearded tomb bat (Taphozous melanopogon) is a species of sac-winged bat.It is found in South and South East Asia.
Other animals of the family Emballonuridae
Black-bearded tomb bat is a member of the Emballonuridae, as are these animals:
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat weighting only 26 grams
- Gray sac-winged bat weighting only 6 grams
- Chestnut sac-winged bat weighting only 9 grams
- Frosted sac-winged bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser dog-like bat weighting only 5 grams
- Shaggy bat weighting only 23 grams
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat weighting only 22 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Taphozous philippinensis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Egyptian tomb bat weighting only 24 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Black-bearded tomb bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Striped possum
- Eastern forest bat
- Spectacled flying fox
- Bush vlei rat
- Intermediate long-fingered bat
- Alpaca
- Green ringtail possum
- Wolf’s mona monkey
- Yellow-backed duiker
- Red acouchi
Animals with the same weight as a Black-bearded tomb bat
What other animals weight around 26 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Western false pipistrelle weighting 23 grams
- Fox’s shrew weighting 21 grams
- Geoxus valdivianus weighting 31 grams
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 28 grams
- North African gerbil weighting 27 grams
- Bibimys torresi weighting 28 grams
- Van Gelder’s bat weighting 22 grams
- Long-tailed house bat weighting 30 grams
- Ugandan musk shrew weighting 23 grams
- Zenker’s fruit bat weighting 21 grams