How many baby Little free-tailed bats are in a litter?
A Little free-tailed bat (Chaerephon pumila) 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 2.04 meter (6′ 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:
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted free-tailed bat weighting only 15 grams
- Sanborn’s bonneted bat weighting only 15 grams
- Ozimops beccarii weighting only 14 grams
- Molossops planirostris with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-striped free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hairless bat weighting only 169 grams
- Spotted free-tailed bat weighting only 15 grams
- Malayan free-tailed bat weighting only 31 grams
- Para dog-faced bat weighting only 12 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Little free-tailed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Caspian seal
- Aberdare mole shrew
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
- Tufted capuchin
- Black-tailed hutia
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo
- Schreber’s yellow bat
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Peale’s free-tailed bat
- Drill (animal)
Animals that get as old as a Little free-tailed bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Mountain pocket gopher with 5 years
- Saharan striped polecat with 5 years
- Peters’s climbing rat with 5.33 years
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 5.17 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Common sheath-tailed bat with 5 years
- House mouse with 6 years
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with 4.75 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- Southeastern myotis with 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Little free-tailed bat
What other animals weight around 10 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Cave myotis weighting 9 grams
- Rufous horseshoe bat weighting 12 grams
- Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat weighting 11 grams
- Lesser large-headed shrew weighting 12 grams
- Long-legged bat weighting 8 grams
- Hinde’s lesser house bat weighting 10 grams
- Southern birch mouse weighting 11 grams
- Lesser long-tongued bat weighting 8 grams
- Eastern red bat weighting 12 grams
- Fawn leaf-nosed bat weighting 8 grams