How many baby Malagasy serotines are in a litter?
A Malagasy serotine (Eptesicus matroka) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Eptesicus). An adult Malagasy serotine grows up to a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Malagasy serotine (Neoromicia matroka), is a species of vesper bat.It is found only in Madagascar.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Malagasy serotine is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Long-eared myotis weighting only 6 grams
- Red myotis weighting only 5 grams
- Myotis vivesi becoming 10 years old
- Big-eared brown bat weighting only 11 grams
- Indiana bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern broad-nosed bat weighting only 8 grams
- Dormer’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Groove-toothed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Miniopterus macrocneme with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pond bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Malagasy serotine
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Mongolian gazelle
- Daubenton’s bat
- Tammar wallaby
- Walia ibex
- African bush elephant
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
- Barbary sheep
- Banded palm civet
- Eastern falanouc
- Potto
Animals with the same weight as a Malagasy serotine
What other animals weight around 6 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Canarian shrew weighting 7 grams
- São Tomé free-tailed bat weighting 7 grams
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat weighting 5 grams
- Fraternal myotis weighting 7 grams
- Mexican long-tailed shrew weighting 7 grams
- Blyth’s horseshoe bat weighting 5 grams
- Beatrix’s bat weighting 7 grams
- Savi’s pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- Dwarf slit-faced bat weighting 6 grams
- Lesser white-toothed shrew weighting 7 grams
Animals with the same size as a Malagasy serotine
Also reaching around 8.2 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Cotton mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Jamaican flower bat gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater false vampire bat gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cactus mouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwan field mouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Usambara shrew gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common shrew gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pacific jumping mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray spiny mouse gets as big as 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)