How many baby Nathusius’s pipistrelles are in a litter?
A Nathusius’s pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nathusii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Pipistrellus). An adult Nathusius’s pipistrelle grows up to a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″).
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.
Nathusius’ pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nathusii) is a small bat in the genus Pipistrellus. It is very similar to the common pipistrelle and has been overlooked in many areas until recently but it is widely distributed across Europe.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Nathusius’s pipistrelle is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Szechwan myotis weighting only 11 grams
- Dormer’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser woolly bat weighting only 6 grams
- Japanese house bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Little broad-nosed bat weighting only 10 grams
- Argentine brown bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser hairy-winged bat weighting only 13 grams
- Nyctophilus arnhemensis weighting only 6 grams
- Riparian myotis weighting only 4 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Nathusius’s pipistrelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Klipspringer
- Dromedary
- Senegal bushbaby
- Michoacan deer mouse
- Long-tongued nectar bat
- Striped dolphin
- Ribbon seal
- Sooty mustached bat
- Micronycteris nicefori
- Sambar deer
Animals that get as old as a Nathusius’s pipistrelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8 years:
- Northern tamandua with 9.5 years
- Mongolian gazelle with 7 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with 9 years
- Black dorcopsis with 8 years
- Pichi with 9 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with 6.75 years
- Grey-bellied squirrel with 9.5 years
- Siberian weasel with 8.83 years
- Tasmanian devil with 8.17 years
- Cape gray mongoose with 8.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Nathusius’s pipistrelle
What other animals weight around 7 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Fulvus roundleaf bat weighting 8 grams
- Rufous mouse-eared bat weighting 7 grams
- Peninsular horseshoe bat weighting 8 grams
- Toad mouse weighting 8 grams
- Lesser woolly bat weighting 6 grams
- Broad-headed pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- East Asian tailless leaf-nosed bat weighting 7 grams
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- Arizona myotis weighting 8 grams
- Antillean ghost-faced bat weighting 8 grams