How many baby Nyctophilus corbenis are in a litter?
A Nyctophilus corbeni (Nyctophilus timoriensis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 5.1 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Nyctophilus). An adult Nyctophilus corbeni grows up to a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″).
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.
Nyctophilus corbeni, commonly known as the south-eastern long-eared bat or Corben’s long-eared bat, is a species of bat found in Australia. It occurs in the woodlands of the Murray Darling Basin and adjacent areas.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Nyctophilus corbeni is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Ridley’s bat weighting only 4 grams
- Eastern forest bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rendall’s serotine weighting only 6 grams
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle weighting only 15 grams
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Groove-toothed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Western broad-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common bent-wing bat becoming 14 years old
- Yellow serotine weighting only 10 grams
- Large-footed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Nyctophilus corbeni
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Clara’s echymipera
- Rusty-spotted genet
- Brown hyena
- Hoary bat
- Western gray squirrel
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Southern yellow bat
- Jungle palm squirrel
- Indian hedgehog
Animals with the same weight as a Nyctophilus corbeni
What other animals weight around 11 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Bates’s slit-faced bat weighting 10 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat weighting 10 grams
- Silvered bat weighting 9 grams
- Common planigale weighting 12 grams
- Eastern long-eared bat weighting 9 grams
- Short-nosed harvest mouse weighting 12 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle weighting 10 grams
- Central pebble-mound mouse weighting 12 grams
- Mexican shrew weighting 11 grams
- Mount Kenya mole shrew weighting 9 grams