How many baby Pallid bats are in a litter?
A Pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 59 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Antrozous). An adult Pallid bat grows up to a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 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.
The pallid bat (Antrozous pallidus) is a species of bat that ranges from western Canada to central Mexico. It is the sole species of its genus and is closely related to Van Gelder’s bat (Bauerus dubiaquercus), which is sometimes included in Antrozous. Although it has in the past been placed in its own subfamily (Antrozoinae) or even family (Antrozoidae), it is now considered part of the subfamily Vespertilioninae and the tribe Antrozoini.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Pallid bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Little broad-nosed bat weighting only 10 grams
- Large forest bat weighting only 6 grams
- Lesser long-fingered bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern forest bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- African yellow bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Townsend’s big-eared bat becoming 21.17 years old
- Large-eared pied bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Flute-nosed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Eisentraut’s pipistrelle weighting only 6 grams
- Lesser large-footed bat weighting only 8 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Pallid bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Spotted-winged fruit bat
- Southern elephant seal
- Gray whale
- Australian sea lion
- South African springhare
- Raffray’s bandicoot
- Scimitar oryx
- Celebes crested macaque
- Black wildebeest
- Natal red rock hare
Animals that get as old as a Pallid bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9.08 years:
- Chacoan peccary with 9 years
- Speke’s pectinator with 10 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
- White-throated woodrat with 7.67 years
- Fisher (animal) with 10.08 years
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with 8.17 years
- Edible dormouse with 9 years
- Whiskered bat with 9.25 years
- Oncilla with 10 years
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 8 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pallid bat
What other animals weight around 22 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Thomas’s broad-nosed bat weighting 26 grams
- Long-tailed pygmy possum weighting 23 grams
- Egyptian tomb bat weighting 24 grams
- Yellow steppe lemming weighting 26 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse weighting 21 grams
- Neacomys tenuipes weighting 19 grams
- Louise’s spiny mouse weighting 20 grams
- Eastern false pipistrelle weighting 22 grams
- Steppe lemming weighting 20 grams
- Agile gracile opossum weighting 22 grams