How many baby Egyptian free-tailed bats are in a litter?
A Egyptian free-tailed bat (Tadarida aegyptiaca) 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 85 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Molossidae family (genus: Tadarida). An adult Egyptian free-tailed bat grows up to a size of 7.5 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 Egyptian free-tailed bat, also known as Egyptian guano bat or Egyptian nyctinome, (Tadarida aegyptiaca) is a species of bat in the family Molossidae.
Other animals of the family Molossidae
Egyptian free-tailed bat is a member of the Molossidae, as are these animals:
- Ozimops loriae weighting only 7 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat weighting only 17 grams
- Molossops planirostris with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peale’s free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat weighting only 26 grams
- Little free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Velvety free-tailed bat weighting only 13 grams
- Para dog-faced bat weighting only 12 grams
- Spotted free-tailed bat weighting only 15 grams
- Aztec mastiff bat weighting only 14 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Egyptian free-tailed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Little collared fruit bat
- Puku
- Pig-tailed langur
- Malayan tapir
- Red-fronted gazelle
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Caribbean monk seal
- Argali
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum
- Javan rhinoceros
Animals with the same weight as a Egyptian free-tailed bat
What other animals weight around 17 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Great bent-winged bat weighting 15 grams
- Delicate slender opossum weighting 15 grams
- Western pygmy possum weighting 15 grams
- Spotted bat weighting 16 grams
- Moon forest shrew weighting 18 grams
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil weighting 17 grams
- Niobe’s shrew weighting 16 grams
- Ipanema bat weighting 18 grams
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting 15 grams
- Pygmy fruit bat weighting 15 grams
Animals with the same size as a Egyptian free-tailed bat
Also reaching around 7.5 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Jamaican fruit bat gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Honey possum gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hazel dormouse gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-eared pocket mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-eared flying mouse gets as big as 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu shrew gets as big as 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)