How many baby Little free-tailed bats are in a litter?
A Little free-tailed bat (Chaerephon pumilus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 62 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Molossidae family (genus: Chaerephon). An adult Little free-tailed bat grows up to a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″).
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 little free-tailed bat (Chaerephon pumilus) is a species of the genus Chaerephon in the family Molossidae. It is widely distributed across Africa and islands around the continent.
Other animals of the family Molossidae
Little free-tailed bat is a member of the Molossidae, as are these animals:
- Medje free-tailed bat weighting only 42 grams
- Peale’s free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat weighting only 14 grams
- Angolan free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown mastiff bat weighting only 15 grams
- White-striped free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Molossops abrasus weighting only 35 grams
- Broad-eared bat weighting only 13 grams
- Peters’s flat-headed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Little free-tailed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Pel’s pouched bat
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Red fruit bat
- Painted ringtail possum
- Homo sapiens
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox
- Greater noctule bat
- South Andean deer
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat
Animals that get as old as a Little free-tailed bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- Long-tailed dunnart with 5 years
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 4 years
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 5.17 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 5 years
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 6 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Steppe pika with 4 years
- White-tailed rat with 6 years
- Peters’s climbing rat with 5.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Little free-tailed bat
What other animals weight around 10 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- American shrew mole weighting 9 grams
- Shamel’s horseshoe bat weighting 9 grams
- Slender harvest mouse weighting 12 grams
- Bourret’s horseshoe bat weighting 8 grams
- Pearson’s horseshoe bat weighting 11 grams
- Noack’s roundleaf bat weighting 10 grams
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat weighting 9 grams
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat weighting 9 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse weighting 10 grams
- Black-clawed brush-furred rat weighting 10 grams