How many baby Greater mouse-eared bats are in a litter?
A Greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) 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 73 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Myotis). An adult Greater mouse-eared bat grows up to a size of 7.2 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 greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) is a European species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Greater mouse-eared bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Banana pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Papillose woolly bat weighting only 10 grams
- Cape serotine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tiny pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black myotis becoming 3.5 years old
- Welwitsch’s bat weighting only 15 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arizona myotis weighting only 8 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Greater mouse-eared bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Barbary sheep
- Four-toed elephant shrew
- Greater long-nosed bat
- Townsend’s mole
- Caribbean monk seal
- Royal antelope
- Spectacled hare-wallaby
- Indian pipistrelle
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Ground pangolin
Animals that get as old as a Greater mouse-eared bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22 years:
- Monk saki with 24.58 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- Giant anteater with 26 years
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with 24.5 years
- Mountain zebra with 24 years
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 20.17 years
- Fallow deer with 25 years
- Black wildebeest with 20 years
- Buru babirusa with 24 years
- Black-fronted duiker with 19.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater mouse-eared bat
What other animals weight around 25 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Blackish white-toothed shrew weighting 20 grams
- Beaded wood mouse weighting 22 grams
- Sagebrush vole weighting 28 grams
- Long-tailed pygmy possum weighting 23 grams
- Hoary bat weighting 27 grams
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting 28 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat weighting 30 grams
- Stirton’s deer mouse weighting 29 grams
- Eastern false pipistrelle weighting 22 grams
- Panama slender opossum weighting 29 grams
Animals with the same size as a Greater mouse-eared bat
Also reaching around 7.2 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Natal multimammate mouse gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Usambara shrew gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Horsfield’s shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tufted pygmy squirrel gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Somali serotine gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mediterranean water shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Temminck’s mouse gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Whitaker’s shrew gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)