How many baby Common sheath-tailed bats are in a litter?
A Common sheath-tailed bat (Taphozous georgianus) 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 106 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Emballonuridae family (genus: Taphozous). An adult Common sheath-tailed bat grows up to a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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 common sheathtail bat, species Taphozous georgianus, is a bat in the family Emballonuridae, occurring in northern Australia.
Other animals of the family Emballonuridae
Common sheath-tailed bat is a member of the Emballonuridae, as are these animals:
- Short-eared bat weighting only 5 grams
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat weighting only 22 grams
- Shaggy bat weighting only 23 grams
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat weighting only 6 grams
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat weighting only 26 grams
- Taphozous philippinensis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat weighting only 45 grams
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mauritian tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common sheath-tailed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
- Long-tailed pangolin
- Red bush squirrel
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel
- Sun bear
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Olive baboon
- Harp seal
- Sangihe tarsier
- Sowerby’s beaked whale
Animals that get as old as a Common sheath-tailed bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 5.17 years
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with 5.58 years
- African striped weasel with 5.17 years
- Slender mongoose with 6 years
- Tiger quoll with 5 years
- White-bellied duiker with 5.25 years
- Forest dormouse with 4 years
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 5.5 years
- Plains rat with 5.58 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common sheath-tailed bat
What other animals weight around 30 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil weighting 26 grams
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 28 grams
- Large Asian roundleaf bat weighting 31 grams
- Abrothrix lanosus weighting 27 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat weighting 36 grams
- Cheesman’s gerbil weighting 28 grams
- Pinyon mouse weighting 27 grams
- Intelligent grass mouse weighting 28 grams
- Black bonneted bat weighting 28 grams
- Wagner’s bonneted bat weighting 36 grams