How many baby Canyon bats are in a litter?
A Canyon bat (Pipistrellus hesperus) 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 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Pipistrellus). An adult Canyon bat grows up to a size of 10.5 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 canyon bat (Parastrellus hesperus), also known as the western pipistrelle, is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Mexico and in the western United States. The species has historically been placed in the genus Pipistrellus, but molecular evidence does not show any close relationship with that genus, and accordingly it was classified into its own genus, Parastrellus, in 2006.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Canyon bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Hoary wattled bat weighting only 8 grams
- Szechwan myotis weighting only 11 grams
- Common bent-wing bat becoming 14 years old
- Fraternal myotis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser large-footed bat weighting only 8 grams
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common bent-wing bat becoming 14 years old
- Fly River trumpet-eared bat weighting only 5 grams
- Himalayan whiskered bat weighting only 2 grams
- Little bent-wing bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Canyon bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brown long-eared bat
- Philippine tarsier
- Spotted-winged fruit bat
- Tricolored bat
- Smoky flying squirrel
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey
- Red-tailed sportive lemur
- Proboscis monkey
- Greater spot-nosed monkey
- Eastern white-eared giant rat
Animals that get as old as a Canyon bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6 years:
- European water vole with 5 years
- Hazel dormouse with 6 years
- Mexican mouse opossum with 7 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with 6 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with 7 years
- Tropical pocket gopher with 7 years
- Silky pocket mouse with 5 years
- Woylie with 6.5 years
- Southeastern myotis with 6 years
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Canyon bat
What other animals weight around 3 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Long-tailed shrew weighting 3 grams
- Banana pipistrelle weighting 3 grams
- Somali serotine weighting 3 grams
- Spurrell’s woolly bat weighting 3 grams
- Little forest bat weighting 3 grams
- Heller’s pipistrelle weighting 3 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle weighting 3 grams
- Peters’s disk-winged bat weighting 3 grams
- Angulate pipistrelle weighting 3 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec weighting 3 grams