How many baby Mexican long-tongued bats are in a litter?
A Mexican long-tongued bat (Choeronycteris mexicana) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Choeronycteris). An adult Mexican long-tongued bat grows up to a size of 6.6 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 Mexican long-tongued bat (Choeronycteris mexicana) is a species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae. It is monotypic within the genus Choeronycteris. The species is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and the United States.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Mexican long-tongued bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- White-bellied big-eared bat weighting only 6 grams
- Tree bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden bat weighting only 12 grams
- Brown tent-making bat weighting only 17 grams
- Hairy big-eared bat weighting only 12 grams
- MacConnell’s bat weighting only 6 grams
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat weighting only 9 grams
- Tonatia silvicola weighting only 32 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silver fruit-eating bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mexican long-tongued bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Bay duiker
- Kolan vole
- California mouse
- Hirola
- Striped bandicoot
- Red-bellied lemur
- Buffy flower bat
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican long-tongued bat
What other animals weight around 17 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- European pine vole weighting 17 grams
- Northern short-tailed shrew weighting 18 grams
- African smoky mouse weighting 17 grams
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting 15 grams
- Long-tailed pocket mouse weighting 20 grams
- Hairy-footed dunnart weighting 15 grams
- Algerian mouse weighting 16 grams
- Russet free-tailed bat weighting 16 grams
- New Holland mouse weighting 16 grams
- Olive grass mouse weighting 19 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mexican long-tongued bat
Also reaching around 6.6 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hoary bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian tomb bat gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern pygmy mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grant’s golden mole gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Yellow-winged bat gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiga shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- San Joaquin pocket mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bates’s shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)