How many baby California leaf-nosed bats are in a litter?
A California leaf-nosed bat (Macrotus californicus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 250 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Macrotus). An adult California leaf-nosed bat grows up to a size of 37.5 cm (1′ 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.
The California leaf-nosed bat (Macrotus californicus) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is found in Mexico and the United States. Its natural habitat is hot deserts. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
California leaf-nosed bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Dark long-tongued bat weighting only 6 grams
- Handley’s tailless bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tree bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gnome fruit-eating bat weighting only 10 grams
- Little white-shouldered bat weighting only 10 grams
- Great stripe-faced bat weighting only 35 grams
- Toltec fruit-eating bat weighting only 15 grams
- Big-eared woolly bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jamaican flower bat weighting only 14 grams
- Spectral bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with California leaf-nosed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bawean deer
- Large-eared pied bat
- Striped dolphin
- Desert rat-kangaroo
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Roosevelt’s muntjac
- Tasmanian pademelon
- Gray-backed sportive lemur
- Tiny pipistrelle
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
Animals that get as old as a California leaf-nosed bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10.33 years:
- Southern tamandua with 9 years
- Banded palm civet with 12 years
- Jaguarundi with 10.58 years
- Jamaican fruit bat with 10 years
- Naked mole-rat with 10 years
- Red-legged sun squirrel with 8.83 years
- Squirrel glider with 12 years
- Red squirrel with 12 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Oncilla with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a California leaf-nosed bat
What other animals weight around 11 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Eptesicus demissus weighting 13 grams
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 10 grams
- Northern leaf-nosed bat weighting 12 grams
- Cape hairy bat weighting 13 grams
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat weighting 9 grams
- American shrew mole weighting 9 grams
- Allen’s big-eared bat weighting 12 grams
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat weighting 9 grams
- Lesser hairy-winged bat weighting 13 grams
- Cave myotis weighting 9 grams