How many baby Common thick-thumbed bats are in a litter?
A Common thick-thumbed bat (Glischropus tylopus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Glischropus). An adult Common thick-thumbed bat grows up to a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 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 common thick-thumbed bat (Glischropus tylopus) is a species of vesper bat found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, and Thailand. It has two subspecies:G. t. tylopusG. t. batjanus
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Common thick-thumbed bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Asian barbastelle weighting only 15 grams
- Daubenton’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern broad-nosed bat weighting only 8 grams
- Malagasy serotine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern yellow bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser long-fingered bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Surat serotine weighting only 13 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Common thick-thumbed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Serotine bat
- Long-nosed potoroo
- Four-horned antelope
- Caspian seal
- Nilgai
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Sooty mustached bat
- Brown-throated sloth
- Calabar angwantibo
- Mountain goat
Animals with the same weight as a Common thick-thumbed bat
What other animals weight around 4 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Proboscis bat weighting 4 grams
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat weighting 4 grams
- Insular horseshoe bat weighting 4 grams
- Clear-winged woolly bat weighting 4 grams
- Doucet’s musk shrew weighting 4 grams
- Eurasian pygmy shrew weighting 4 grams
- Spix’s disk-winged bat weighting 4 grams
- Elegant myotis weighting 4 grams
- Least dwarf shrew weighting 4 grams
- Groove-toothed bat weighting 4 grams