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How many babies does a Gray bat have at once? (litter size)

How many baby Gray bats are in a litter?

A Gray bat (Myotis grisescens) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.

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 Gray 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.

The average litter size of a Gray bat is 1

The gray bat (Myotis grisescens) is a species of microbat endemic to North America. The creature once flourished in caves all over the southeastern United States, but due to human disturbance, gray bat populations declined severely during the early and mid portion of the 20th century. At one cave alone, the Georgetown Cave in northwestern Alabama, populations declined from 150,000 gray bats to 10,000 by 1969. 95% of gray bats now only roost in 9 caves. M. grisescens has been listed as federally endangered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1976, and is protected under the Endangered Species Act. Gray bat populations were estimated at approximately 2 million bats around the time they were placed on the Endangered Species list. By the early 1980s populations of gray bats dropped to 1.6 million. With conservation efforts in place, in 2002, gray bat populations were estimated to have reached 2.3 million.

Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae

Gray bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:

Animals that share a litter size with Gray bat

Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:

Animals that get as old as a Gray bat

Other animals that usually reach the age of 39.25 years:

Animals with the same weight as a Gray bat

What other animals weight around 10 grams (0.02 lbs)?