How many baby Naked-rumped tomb bats are in a litter?
A Naked-rumped tomb bat (Taphozous nudiventris) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 50 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Emballonuridae family (genus: Taphozous). An adult Naked-rumped tomb bat grows up to a size of 8.5 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 naked-rumped tomb bat (Taphozous nudiventris) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae. Found in northern Africa, the Middle East, and southeastern Asia, its natural habitats are dry savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and forests, caves, and arid areas.
Other animals of the family Emballonuridae
Naked-rumped tomb bat is a member of the Emballonuridae, as are these animals:
- Greater sac-winged bat weighting only 8 grams
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat weighting only 26 grams
- Lesser dog-like bat weighting only 5 grams
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Shaggy bat weighting only 23 grams
- Lesser sac-winged bat weighting only 1 grams
- Theobald’s tomb bat weighting only 36 grams
- Northern ghost bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pel’s pouched bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mauritian tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Naked-rumped tomb bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Stephen’s woodrat
- Silky cuscus
- Four-striped ground squirrel
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
- Olive colobus
- Brazilian brown bat
- Rio Beni titi
- Greater mouse-deer
- Steller’s sea cow
- Dent’s vlei rat
Animals with the same weight as a Naked-rumped tomb bat
What other animals weight around 31 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Short-haired water rat weighting 33 grams
- Dusky fruit bat weighting 35 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse weighting 35 grams
- Montane wood mouse weighting 36 grams
- Day’s grass mouse weighting 32 grams
- Gleaning mouse weighting 35 grams
- Akodon spegazzinii weighting 28 grams
- Large slit-faced bat weighting 29 grams
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec weighting 37 grams
- Myotis vivesi weighting 25 grams
Animals with the same size as a Naked-rumped tomb bat
Also reaching around 8.5 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Wagner’s gerbil gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salt marsh harvest mouse gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jamaican fruit bat gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater false vampire bat gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pallas’s pika gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Flat-skulled shrew gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed dunnart gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland vole gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pacific jumping mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forrest’s mouse gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)