How many baby Naked-rumped pouched bats are in a litter?
A Naked-rumped pouched bat (Saccolaimus saccolaimus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2.25 kg (4.96 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Emballonuridae family (genus: Saccolaimus). An adult Naked-rumped pouched bat grows up to a size of 12.9 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 naked-rumped pouched bat (Saccolaimus saccolaimus), also known as pouched tomb bat, is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae.It is found in Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and possibly Myanmar.The animal is known as පැස් පිරි-වවුලා (paes piri wawulaa) in Sinhala.
Other animals of the family Emballonuridae
Naked-rumped pouched bat is a member of the Emballonuridae, as are these animals:
- Frosted sac-winged bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat weighting only 12 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mauritian tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pel’s pouched bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater sac-winged bat weighting only 8 grams
- Dark sheath-tailed bat weighting only 2 grams
- Greater dog-like bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser sac-winged bat weighting only 1 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Naked-rumped pouched bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bowhead whale
- Guanaco
- Dall sheep
- Philippine tarsier
- Hispaniolan hutia
- Aardvark
- Wagner’s bonneted bat
- Northeast African mole-rat
- Guatemalan black howler
- Barbary macaque
Animals with the same weight as a Naked-rumped pouched bat
What other animals weight around 43 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse weighting 43 grams
- Rock dormouse weighting 46 grams
- Zempoaltépec vole weighting 42 grams
- Midas free-tailed bat weighting 45 grams
- Gould’s mouse weighting 49 grams
- Grey red-backed vole weighting 36 grams
- Greater noctule bat weighting 45 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel weighting 45 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 50 grams
- Social vole weighting 48 grams