How many baby Parti-coloured bats are in a litter?
A Parti-coloured bat (Vespertilio murinus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 52 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 93 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Vespertilio). An adult Parti-coloured bat grows up to a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″).
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 parti-coloured bat or rearmouse (Vespertilio murinus) is a species of vesper bat that lives in temperate Eurasia – Central and Eastern Europe, in some parts of Western and Southern Europe and Asia. Occurs eastwards over the Caucasus and Iran into Mongolia, north-east China, Korea, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Parti-coloured bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Allen’s spotted bat weighting only 5 grams
- Eastern broad-nosed bat weighting only 11 grams
- Northern yellow bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern red bat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common thick-thumbed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dormer’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kenyan wattled bat weighting only 7 grams
- Pond bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Evening bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Parti-coloured bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Asian elephant
- South Asian river dolphin
- Tana River mangabey
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Eastern rock elephant shrew
- Long-footed treeshrew
- Wagner’s bonneted bat
- Brown’s pademelon
- Black-footed mongoose
- Eisentraut’s shrew
Animals that get as old as a Parti-coloured bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Fisher (animal) with 10.08 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with 12 years
- Allied rock-wallaby with 13 years
- Common duiker with 14.25 years
- Saiga antelope with 12 years
- Striped skunk with 12.92 years
- Malayan civet with 12 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 10 years
- Central American agouti with 10 years
- Hispaniolan hutia with 9.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Parti-coloured bat
What other animals weight around 15 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew weighting 18 grams
- Monte gerbil mouse weighting 18 grams
- Broad-toothed tailless bat weighting 15 grams
- Long-tongued nectar bat weighting 16 grams
- Ussuri shrew weighting 15 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat weighting 18 grams
- Bonda mastiff bat weighting 17 grams
- Cape horseshoe bat weighting 12 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat weighting 15 grams
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse weighting 12 grams