How many baby Daubenton’s bats are in a litter?
A Daubenton’s bat (Myotis daubentoni) 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:
- Greater long-fingered bat weighting only 14 grams
- Surat serotine weighting only 13 grams
- Groove-toothed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Riparian myotis weighting only 4 grams
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hodgson’s bat weighting only 7 grams
- Large-eared pied bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Variegated butterfly bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Daubenton’s bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Small flying fox
- Tufted pygmy squirrel
- Dwarf brocket
- Little brown bat
- Pallas’s squirrel
- Eastern woolly lemur
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey
- Gray dorcopsis
- Felou gundi
- Javan rusa
Animals that get as old as a Daubenton’s bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 28 years:
- Sea otter with 30 years
- Père David’s deer with 23.25 years
- Ribbon seal with 31 years
- Venezuelan red howler with 25 years
- Sunda slow loris with 26.5 years
- Ribbon seal with 31 years
- Mantled guereza with 24.5 years
- Western long-beaked echidna with 31 years
- Weddell seal with 25 years
- South American sea lion with 24.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Daubenton’s bat
What other animals weight around 7 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Geoffroy’s bat weighting 7 grams
- Micronycteris sylvestris weighting 8 grams
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat weighting 7 grams
- Malayan horseshoe bat weighting 6 grams
- Arizona myotis weighting 8 grams
- Baird’s shrew weighting 8 grams
- Emilia’s gracile opossum weighting 7 grams
- Leach’s single leaf bat weighting 8 grams
- Ozimops loriae weighting 7 grams
- Grey long-eared 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:
- Fringed myotis gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southeastern shrew gets as big as 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woermann’s bat gets as big as 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Desert pocket mouse gets as big as 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rufous trident bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat gets as big as 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Proboscis bat gets as big as 4.2 cm (0′ 2″)
- Grey long-eared bat gets as big as 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Inyo shrew gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Indiana bat gets as big as 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)