How many baby Greater false vampire bats are in a litter?
A Greater false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra) 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 152 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 10 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Megadermatidae family (genus: Megaderma). An adult Greater false vampire bat grows up to a size of 7.3 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 greater false vampire bat (Megaderma lyra) is a species of bat in the family Megadermatidae, the false vampire bats. It is native to Asia. It is also known as the Indian false vampire bat or greater false-vampire
Other animals of the family Megadermatidae
Greater false vampire bat is a member of the Megadermatidae, as are these animals:
- Ghost bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Heart-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser false vampire bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-winged bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Greater false vampire bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Coppery titi
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Dormer’s bat
- Big brown bat
- Black-shanked douc
- Mashona mole-rat
- Daubenton’s bat
- Sharpe’s grysbok
- Venezuelan red howler
- Ashy black titi
Animals that get as old as a Greater false vampire bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Ring-tailed cat with 16.5 years
- Hamlyn’s monkey with 13.5 years
- European hare with 12 years
- Striped polecat with 13.33 years
- Smooth-coated otter with 15 years
- Saiga antelope with 12 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey with 16 years
- Red slender loris with 16.33 years
- Allied rock-wallaby with 13 years
- Ground cuscus with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater false vampire bat
What other animals weight around 39 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat weighting 41 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse weighting 35 grams
- Red-tailed phascogale weighting 43 grams
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat weighting 40 grams
- Mexican volcano mouse weighting 44 grams
- Typical striped grass mouse weighting 43 grams
- Short-snouted elephant shrew weighting 45 grams
- Northern mole vole weighting 40 grams
- Chihuahuan mouse weighting 40 grams
- Deroo’s mouse weighting 32 grams
Animals with the same size as a Greater false vampire bat
Also reaching around 7.3 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nubra pika gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little yellow-shouldered bat gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Steppe mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Iberian shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common noctule gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hazel dormouse gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater forest shrew gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-clawed shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)