How many baby Hoary bats are in a litter?
A Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 57 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Lasiurus). An adult Hoary bat grows up to a size of 7.5 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 hoary bat (Aeorestes cinereus) is a species of bat in the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae. It lives throughout most of North America and much of South America, with disjunct populations in the Galápagos Islands and Hawaii.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Hoary bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Brown tube-nosed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Asian particolored bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Large forest bat weighting only 6 grams
- Greater tube-nosed bat weighting only 7 grams
- Harlequin bat weighting only 22 grams
- Blanford’s bat weighting only 6 grams
- Western broad-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Miniopterus macrocneme with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Papillose woolly bat weighting only 10 grams
- Eastern red bat with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hoary bat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Tayra
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec
- Javanese flying squirrel
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- Crested porcupine
- True’s shrew mole
- Lundomys
- Burmese ferret-badger
- Lion
Animals that get as old as a Hoary bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.08 years:
- Norway lemming with 2 years
- Malabar spiny dormouse with 1.67 years
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with 2.5 years
- Asian house shrew with 2.5 years
- Cinereus shrew with 1.92 years
- Honey possum with 2 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with 1.75 years
- Eastern harvest mouse with 2.17 years
- Vagrant shrew with 2.08 years
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with 2 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hoary bat
What other animals weight around 27 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Oligoryzomys nigripes weighting 29 grams
- True’s vole weighting 22 grams
- Common vole weighting 26 grams
- Olive grass mouse weighting 24 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse weighting 28 grams
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse weighting 32 grams
- Thespian grass mouse weighting 24 grams
- Mauritian tomb bat weighting 27 grams
- Long-tailed house bat weighting 30 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni weighting 24 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hoary bat
Also reaching around 7.5 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Pacific shrew gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eastern shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape serotine gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hairy big-eyed bat gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Guinean planigale gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Madagascan flying fox gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bastard big-footed mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tundra shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert long-eared bat gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)