How many baby Egyptian slit-faced bats are in a litter?
A Egyptian slit-faced bat (Nycteris thebaica) 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 114 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 87 grams (0.19 lbs) and measure 3.5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Nycteridae family (genus: Nycteris). An adult Egyptian slit-faced bat grows up to a size of 5.2 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 Egyptian slit-faced bat (Nycteris thebaica) is a species of slit-faced bat broadly distributed throughout Africa and the Middle East. It is a species of microbat in the family Nycteridae. Six subspecies are known.
Other animals of the family Nycteridae
Egyptian slit-faced bat is a member of the Nycteridae, as are these animals:
- Hairy slit-faced bat weighting only 7 grams
- Javan slit-faced bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Malagasy slit-faced bat weighting only 17 grams
- Large slit-faced bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wood’s slit-faced bat weighting only 7 grams
- Dwarf slit-faced bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bates’s slit-faced bat weighting only 10 grams
- Gambian slit-faced bat weighting only 7 grams
- Malayan slit-faced bat weighting only 14 grams
- Large-eared slit-faced bat weighting only 14 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Egyptian slit-faced bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Greater noctule bat
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Rhinolophus simplex
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat
- Nilgiri tahr
- Southwestern myotis
- Calabar angwantibo
- Northern brushtail possum
Animals with the same weight as a Egyptian slit-faced bat
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Glen’s wattled bat weighting 10 grams
- Orange leaf-nosed bat weighting 8 grams
- Southern ningaui weighting 9 grams
- Shamel’s horseshoe bat weighting 9 grams
- Pygmy round-eared bat weighting 9 grams
- Long-legged myotis weighting 8 grams
- Gray bat weighting 10 grams
- Micronomus weighting 8 grams
- Black-clawed brush-furred rat weighting 10 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat weighting 10 grams
Animals with the same size as a Egyptian slit-faced bat
Also reaching around 5.2 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Townsend’s big-eared bat gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Silky pocket mouse gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rufous trident bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Eurasian least shrew gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Rhinolophus hilli gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)