How many baby Molossops planirostriss are in a litter?
A Molossops planirostris (Molossops planirostris) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 39.45 kg (86.96 lbs) and measure 3.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Molossidae family (genus: Molossops). An adult Molossops planirostris grows up to a size of 14.3 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.
Other animals of the family Molossidae
Molossops planirostris is a member of the Molossidae, as are these animals:
- Northern freetail bat weighting only 20 grams
- Nigerian free-tailed bat weighting only 20 grams
- Dwarf dog-faced bat weighting only 5 grams
- São Tomé free-tailed bat weighting only 7 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat weighting only 17 grams
- Midas free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinea free-tailed bat weighting only 26 grams
- Micronomus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Angolan free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Russet free-tailed bat weighting only 16 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Molossops planirostris
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Black capuchin
- Mantled guereza
- White-bellied duiker
- Tiny pipistrelle
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Hispid pocket gopher
- Bald uakari
- Naked-rumped tomb bat
Animals with the same weight as a Molossops planirostris
What other animals weight around 12 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat weighting 12 grams
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat weighting 10 grams
- Malayan slit-faced bat weighting 14 grams
- Micronycteris brachyotis weighting 10 grams
- Mediterranean water shrew weighting 13 grams
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 10 grams
- Taiva shrew tenrec weighting 12 grams
- Northern leaf-nosed bat weighting 12 grams
- Yellow serotine weighting 10 grams
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat weighting 13 grams