How many baby Daubenton’s bats are in a litter?
A Daubenton’s bat (Myotis daubentonii) 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 55 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Myotis). An adult Daubenton’s bat grows up to a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″).
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.
Daubenton’s bat (Myotis daubentonii) is a Eurasian bat with rather short ears. It ranges from Britain to Japan (Hokkaido) and is considered to be increasing its numbers in many areas.This bat was first described in 1817 by Heinrich Kuhl, who named it in honour of French naturalist Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Daubenton’s bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Black-gilded pipistrelle weighting only 10 grams
- Tickell’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan whiskered bat weighting only 2 grams
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern forest bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tropical big-eared brown bat weighting only 11 grams
- Ridley’s bat weighting only 4 grams
- Light-winged lesser house bat weighting only 4 grams
- Big-eared brown bat weighting only 11 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Daubenton’s bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Black-rumped agouti
- Red-shanked douc
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Bawean deer
- Microcebus coquereli
- Fire-footed rope squirrel
- West Caucasian tur
- Brown-mantled tamarin
- Buru babirusa
- Little brown bat
Animals that get as old as a Daubenton’s bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 28 years:
- Sambar deer with 26.42 years
- Malayan tapir with 30 years
- Ribbon seal with 31 years
- Guianan squirrel monkey with 27 years
- Muskox with 24 years
- Leopard seal with 26 years
- Tiger with 26.25 years
- Gelada with 28 years
- Sambar deer with 26.42 years
- American bison with 33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Daubenton’s bat
What other animals weight around 7 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Emilia’s gracile opossum weighting 7 grams
- Goldman’s broad-clawed shrew weighting 6 grams
- Hodgson’s bat weighting 7 grams
- Smoky shrew weighting 7 grams
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- Coelops frithi weighting 7 grams
- Northern birch mouse weighting 8 grams
- Reddish-gray musk shrew weighting 8 grams
- De Winton’s long-eared bat weighting 6 grams
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat weighting 6 grams
Animals with the same size as a Daubenton’s bat
Also reaching around 4.4 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Dwarf shrew gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fringed myotis gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Inyo shrew gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cursor grass mouse gets as big as 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Common pipistrelle gets as big as 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rufous trident bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle gets as big as 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Desert pocket mouse gets as big as 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat gets as big as 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)