How many baby Greater dog-like bats are in a litter?
A Greater dog-like bat (Peropteryx kappleri) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 137 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Emballonuridae family (genus: Peropteryx). An adult Greater dog-like bat grows up to a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″).
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 greater dog-like bat (Peropteryx kappleri) is a bat species from Central America and South America. It is found from southern Mexico through Brazil and Peru.
Other animals of the family Emballonuridae
Greater dog-like bat is a member of the Emballonuridae, as are these animals:
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser ghost bat weighting only 13 grams
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat weighting only 22 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Isabelle’s ghost bat weighting only 12 grams
- African sheath-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater sac-winged bat weighting only 8 grams
- Trinidad dog-like bat weighting only 4 grams
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat weighting only 5 grams
- Greater ghost bat weighting only 12 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Greater dog-like bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northern bat
- Forest giant squirrel
- White-faced spiny tree-rat
- Swamp wallaby
- Bontebok
- Allied rock-wallaby
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Delicate mouse
- Guinea baboon
- Northern viscacha
Animals with the same weight as a Greater dog-like bat
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Temminck’s mouse weighting 8 grams
- Mount Kenya mole shrew weighting 9 grams
- Antillean ghost-faced bat weighting 8 grams
- Reddish-gray musk shrew weighting 8 grams
- Evening bat weighting 9 grams
- Crosse’s shrew weighting 8 grams
- Little free-tailed bat weighting 10 grams
- African sheath-tailed bat weighting 10 grams
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec weighting 10 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat weighting 10 grams