How many baby Desert long-eared bats are in a litter?
A Desert long-eared bat (Otonycteris hemprichii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 7.1 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Otonycteris). An adult Desert long-eared bat grows up to a size of 6.4 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 desert long-eared bat (Otonycteris hemprichii) is a species of vesper bat found in North Africa and the Middle East.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Desert long-eared bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Schlieffen’s bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tickell’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- De Winton’s long-eared bat weighting only 6 grams
- Greater Papuan pipistrelle weighting only 6 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat weighting only 10 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat weighting only 10 grams
- Little forest bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese pipistrelle weighting only 5 grams
- Whitehead’s woolly bat weighting only 3 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Desert long-eared bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Monk saki
- Charming thicket rat
- Spectral tarsier
- François’ langur
- Sitatunga
- Frosted sac-winged bat
- Railer bat
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat
- Ocelot
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox
Animals with the same weight as a Desert long-eared bat
What other animals weight around 21 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- White-tailed dunnart weighting 25 grams
- Western shrew mouse weighting 21 grams
- Desert dormouse weighting 17 grams
- Agile antechinus weighting 22 grams
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat weighting 21 grams
- Long-tailed pygmy possum weighting 23 grams
- Least forest mouse weighting 21 grams
- Egyptian free-tailed bat weighting 17 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat weighting 17 grams
- Eloquent horseshoe bat weighting 19 grams
Animals with the same size as a Desert long-eared bat
Also reaching around 6.4 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Natal multimammate mouse gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ranee mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large slit-faced bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Preble’s shrew gets as big as 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser ranee mouse gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Iberian shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale kangaroo mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mediterranean water shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)