How many baby Large slit-faced bats are in a litter?
A Large slit-faced bat (Nycteris grandis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 87 grams (0.19 lbs) and measure 3.5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Nycteridae family (genus: Nycteris). An adult Large slit-faced 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 large slit-faced bat, Nycteris grandis, is a species of slit-faced bat with a broad distribution in forest and savanna habitats in West, Central, and East Africa. N. marica (Kershaw, 1923), is the available name for the southern savanna species if it is recognized as distinct from this species.
Other animals of the family Nycteridae
Large slit-faced bat is a member of the Nycteridae, as are these animals:
- Large-eared slit-faced bat weighting only 14 grams
- Hairy slit-faced bat weighting only 7 grams
- Egyptian slit-faced bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Malayan slit-faced bat weighting only 14 grams
- Bates’s slit-faced bat weighting only 10 grams
- Malagasy slit-faced bat weighting only 17 grams
- Javan slit-faced bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gambian slit-faced bat weighting only 7 grams
- Dwarf slit-faced bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wood’s slit-faced bat weighting only 7 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Large slit-faced bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
- Javan slit-faced bat
- Plains viscacha
- Verreaux’s sifaka
- Dwarf brocket
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
- Mashona mole-rat
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat
- Mexican free-tailed bat
Animals with the same weight as a Large slit-faced bat
What other animals weight around 29 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Texas mouse weighting 27 grams
- Woolly horseshoe bat weighting 34 grams
- European free-tailed bat weighting 28 grams
- Common noctule weighting 28 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes weighting 29 grams
- Short-haired water rat weighting 33 grams
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse weighting 34 grams
- African yellow bat weighting 25 grams
- Japanese mountain mole weighting 25 grams
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 28 grams
Animals with the same size as a Large slit-faced bat
Also reaching around 7.5 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Egyptian tomb bat gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese dormouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Guinean planigale gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dark kangaroo mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Plains pocket mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tundra shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese shrew mole gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)