How many baby Lesser Asiatic yellow bats are in a litter?
A Lesser Asiatic yellow bat (Scotophilus kuhlii) 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 110 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Scotophilus). An adult Lesser Asiatic yellow bat grows up to a size of 23.6 cm (0′ 10″).
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 lesser Asiatic yellow bat (Scotophilus kuhlii) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Taiwan.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Lesser Asiatic yellow bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Abo bat weighting only 6 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat weighting only 10 grams
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle weighting only 6 grams
- Lesser bamboo bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed house bat weighting only 30 grams
- Long-legged myotis becoming 4.25 years old
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yuma myotis becoming 8.75 years old
- Nyctophilus corbeni with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lesser Asiatic yellow bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sooty mustached bat
- Black-striped wallaby
- Common brown lemur
- Link rat
- Nubian ibex
- Banded palm civet
- Intermediate long-fingered bat
- Grivet
- Sei whale
- Hirola
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser Asiatic yellow bat
What other animals weight around 20 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Common blossom bat weighting 17 grams
- Brush mouse weighting 23 grams
- Spotted bat weighting 16 grams
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat weighting 21 grams
- Ultimate shrew weighting 16 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat weighting 23 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat weighting 22 grams
- Hairy-eared cerrado mouse weighting 24 grams
- Gilbert’s dunnart weighting 19 grams
- Tent-making bat weighting 16 grams