How many baby Northern ghost bats are in a litter?
A Northern ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) 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 35 kg (77.16 lbs) and measure 2.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Emballonuridae family (genus: Diclidurus). An adult Northern ghost bat grows up to a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″).
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 ghost bat (Diclidurus albus) is a bat species from South America, Trinidad, and Central America. It is a relatively rare, completely white, insectivorous bat, with an unusual sac at the base of its tail.
Other animals of the family Emballonuridae
Northern ghost bat is a member of the Emballonuridae, as are these animals:
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Theobald’s tomb bat weighting only 36 grams
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat weighting only 12 grams
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat weighting only 5 grams
- Isabelle’s ghost bat weighting only 12 grams
- Long-winged tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat weighting only 26 grams
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat weighting only 10 grams
- African sheath-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater ghost bat weighting only 12 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Northern ghost bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Steenbok
- Lesser noctule
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Koslov’s pika
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat
- Brown titi
- Naked-rumped tomb bat
- Peleng tarsier
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat
Animals with the same weight as a Northern ghost bat
What other animals weight around 16 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Tent-making bat weighting 16 grams
- New Holland mouse weighting 16 grams
- Brown flower bat weighting 16 grams
- Upemba shrew weighting 14 grams
- Little wood mouse weighting 14 grams
- New Guinean planigale weighting 14 grams
- Mehely’s horseshoe bat weighting 14 grams
- Delicate vesper mouse weighting 13 grams
- Mediterranean water shrew weighting 13 grams
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat weighting 18 grams
Animals with the same size as a Northern ghost bat
Also reaching around 7 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Arizona shrew gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Iberian shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little native mouse gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert long-eared bat gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common noctule gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dark kangaroo mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater mouse-tailed bat gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)