How many baby Northern bats are in a litter?
A Northern bat (Eptesicus nilssonii) 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 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Eptesicus). An adult Northern bat grows up to a size of 8.2 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 northern bat (Eptesicus nilssonii) is the most abundant species of bat in northern Eurasia. It is found from England to HokkaidÅ and down to northern India. It is closely related to the serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus).
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Northern bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Whitehead’s woolly bat weighting only 3 grams
- Harlequin bat weighting only 22 grams
- Nyctophilus geoffroyi weighting only 2 grams
- Elegant myotis weighting only 4 grams
- Myotis vivesi becoming 10 years old
- Horsfield’s bat weighting only 6 grams
- Rendall’s serotine weighting only 6 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle weighting only 3 grams
- Melck’s house bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Northern bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Angola colobus
- Lesser long-fingered bat
- Sea otter
- Eastern white-eared giant rat
- Nilgiri langur
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Agile wallaby
- Greater dog-like bat
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Northern bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15.5 years:
- Klipspringer with 17.75 years
- Philippine tarsier with 15 years
- Greater glider with 15 years
- Maned wolf with 15 years
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
- Fennec fox with 14.58 years
- California myotis with 15 years
- Red brocket with 13.75 years
- European pine marten with 17 years
- Red goral with 18.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Northern bat
What other animals weight around 10 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Gervais’s fruit-eating bat weighting 12 grams
- Northern leaf-nosed bat weighting 12 grams
- Rohu’s bat weighting 12 grams
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec weighting 12 grams
- Greater dwarf shrew weighting 8 grams
- Large-eared pied bat weighting 8 grams
- Alston’s brown mouse weighting 11 grams
- Moloney’s mimic bat weighting 8 grams
- Molossops planirostris weighting 12 grams
- Gray climbing mouse weighting 9 grams