How many baby Kuhl’s pipistrelles are in a litter?
A Kuhl’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Pipistrellus). An adult Kuhl’s pipistrelle grows up to a size of 4.5 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.
Kuhl’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii) is a species of vesper bat that lives over large areas of North Africa, southern Europe and Western Asia. It can be found in temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, rural gardens, and urban areas.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Kuhl’s pipistrelle is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Hoary wattled bat weighting only 8 grams
- Tricolored bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chocolate wattled bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern broad-nosed bat weighting only 8 grams
- Montane myotis weighting only 5 grams
- Northern cave bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow serotine weighting only 10 grams
- Sind bat weighting only 7 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle weighting only 10 grams
- Eastern false pipistrelle weighting only 22 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Kuhl’s pipistrelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
- Giant roundleaf bat
- Central American agouti
- Rusty pipistrelle
- Philippine flying lemur
- Common brushtail possum
- Yellow baboon
- Humpback whale
Animals with the same weight as a Kuhl’s pipistrelle
What other animals weight around 6 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Spurred roundleaf bat weighting 6 grams
- Makwassie musk shrew weighting 6 grams
- Southeastern myotis weighting 7 grams
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle weighting 7 grams
- Greater tube-nosed bat weighting 7 grams
- Lesser long-fingered bat weighting 7 grams
- Large forest bat weighting 6 grams
- Argentine brown bat weighting 7 grams
- White-winged serotine weighting 5 grams
- De Winton’s long-eared bat weighting 6 grams
Animals with the same size as a Kuhl’s pipistrelle
Also reaching around 4.5 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Daubenton’s bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Lesser horseshoe bat gets as big as 3.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Moupin pika gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Preble’s shrew gets as big as 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Least shrew tenrec gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Proboscis bat gets as big as 4.2 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat gets as big as 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Slender shrew gets as big as 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)