How many baby Long-legged bats are in a litter?
A Long-legged bat (Macrophyllum macrophyllum) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Macrophyllum). An adult Long-legged bat grows up to a size of 6.8 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 long-legged bat (Macrophyllum macrophyllum) is a member of the Phyllostomidae family in the order Chiroptera. Both males and females of this species are generally small, with wingspans reaching 80mm with an average weight ranging between 6 and 9 grams. The facial structure of these bats includes a shortened rostrum with a prominent noseleaf. The most defining feature of these bats however, is their long posterior limbs that extend farther than most Phyllostomidae bats. At the ends of these hind legs, the long-legged bat has abnormally large feet equipped with strong claws.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Long-legged bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat weighting only 49 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat becoming 10.42 years old
- Melissa’s yellow-eared bat weighting only 16 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat weighting only 17 grams
- Tent-making bat weighting only 16 grams
- Dark fruit-eating bat weighting only 35 grams
- Micronycteris brachyotis weighting only 10 grams
- Gervais’s fruit-eating bat weighting only 12 grams
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat weighting only 18 grams
- Jamaican flower bat weighting only 14 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Long-legged bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Eastern bettong
- Unadorned rock-wallaby
- Climbing shrew
- Typical vlei rat
- Bharal
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel
- Smoky flying squirrel
- Serotine bat
- Big-eared woolly bat
Animals with the same weight as a Long-legged bat
What other animals weight around 8 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Northern pygmy mouse weighting 7 grams
- Coelops frithi weighting 7 grams
- Croslet horseshoe bat weighting 7 grams
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat weighting 7 grams
- Little native mouse weighting 8 grams
- Bobrinski’s serotine weighting 7 grams
- Greater dwarf shrew weighting 8 grams
- Bronze tube-nosed bat weighting 7 grams
- Little brown bat weighting 7 grams
- Botswanan long-eared bat weighting 7 grams