How many baby Pallas’s long-tongued bats are in a litter?
A Pallas’s long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 108 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 180 kg (396.83 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Glossophaga). An adult Pallas’s long-tongued bat grows up to a size of 4.8 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.
Pallas’s long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) is a South and Central American bat with a fast metabolism that feeds on nectar.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Pallas’s long-tongued bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Fringe-lipped bat weighting only 36 grams
- Hairy big-eyed bat weighting only 23 grams
- Leach’s single leaf bat weighting only 8 grams
- Long-legged bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown tent-making bat weighting only 17 grams
- Fischer’s little fruit bat weighting only 9 grams
- White-bellied big-eared bat weighting only 6 grams
- Velvety fruit-eating bat weighting only 16 grams
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat weighting only 49 grams
- Tent-making bat weighting only 16 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Pallas’s long-tongued bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Rio Mayo titi
- White-throated guenon
- Dian’s tarsier
- Chiapan deer mouse
- South Andean deer
- Caspian seal
- Pileated gibbon
- Black flying fox
- Kerivoula hardwickei
- Big brown bat
Animals that get as old as a Pallas’s long-tongued bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Tasmanian pademelon with 10 years
- Brown palm civet with 12 years
- African wild dog with 11 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with 12 years
- Island fox with 8 years
- San Diego pocket mouse with 8.25 years
- Quokka with 12 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- Agile wallaby with 12 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pallas’s long-tongued bat
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Western harvest mouse weighting 10 grams
- Greater dwarf shrew weighting 8 grams
- Pouched gerbil weighting 10 grams
- Orange leaf-nosed bat weighting 8 grams
- Thick-eared bat weighting 8 grams
- Greater white-toothed shrew weighting 9 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle weighting 10 grams
- Siberian large-toothed shrew weighting 8 grams
- Black-gilded pipistrelle weighting 10 grams
- Micronycteris nicefori weighting 8 grams
Animals with the same size as a Pallas’s long-tongued bat
Also reaching around 4.8 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat gets as big as 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common pipistrelle gets as big as 3.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cinereus shrew gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater bulldog bat gets as big as 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Proboscis bat gets as big as 4.2 cm (0′ 2″)
- Egyptian slit-faced bat gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)