How many baby Long-winged tomb bats are in a litter?
A Long-winged tomb bat (Taphozous longimanus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 107 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Emballonuridae family (genus: Taphozous). An adult Long-winged tomb bat grows up to a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″).
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-winged tomb bat (Taphozous longimanus) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae.It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.
Other animals of the family Emballonuridae
Long-winged tomb bat is a member of the Emballonuridae, as are these animals:
- Black-bearded tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser dog-like bat weighting only 5 grams
- Shaggy bat weighting only 23 grams
- Common sheath-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- African sheath-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat weighting only 5 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Greater sac-winged bat weighting only 8 grams
- Taphozous philippinensis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat weighting only 22 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Long-winged tomb bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Pileated gibbon
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Lechwe
- Steller sea lion
- Birdlike noctule
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel
- Large-footed bat
- Spectral bat
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat
Animals with the same weight as a Long-winged tomb bat
What other animals weight around 25 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- White-eared pocket mouse weighting 24 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat weighting 23 grams
- Allen’s wood mouse weighting 20 grams
- Andean gerbil mouse weighting 28 grams
- North African gerbil weighting 27 grams
- Hazel dormouse weighting 29 grams
- Little desert pocket mouse weighting 23 grams
- Common noctule weighting 28 grams
- Cerrado mouse weighting 24 grams
- Koford’s grass mouse weighting 29 grams