How many baby Peale’s free-tailed bats are in a litter?
A Peale’s free-tailed bat (Nyctinomops aurispinosus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Molossidae family (genus: Nyctinomops). An adult Peale’s free-tailed bat 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.
Peale’s free-tailed bat (Nyctinomops aurispinosus) is a bat species from South and Central America.
Other animals of the family Molossidae
Peale’s free-tailed bat is a member of the Molossidae, as are these animals:
- Malayan free-tailed bat weighting only 31 grams
- Cinnamon dog-faced bat weighting only 35 grams
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat weighting only 21 grams
- Sierra Leone free-tailed bat weighting only 16 grams
- Pocketed free-tailed bat weighting only 15 grams
- Molossops planirostris with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sanborn’s bonneted bat weighting only 15 grams
- Wroughton’s free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nigerian free-tailed bat weighting only 20 grams
- Egyptian free-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Peale’s free-tailed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Dama gazelle
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Olive baboon
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Madagascan rousette
- Western rock elephant shrew
- Highland brush mouse
- Brown long-eared bat
- Egyptian fruit bat
Animals with the same weight as a Peale’s free-tailed bat
What other animals weight around 18 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Woodland dormouse weighting 20 grams
- Parti-coloured bat weighting 15 grams
- Davies’s big-eared bat weighting 18 grams
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse weighting 20 grams
- Savanna swamp shrew weighting 19 grams
- Aztec fruit-eating bat weighting 20 grams
- Bolam’s mouse weighting 15 grams
- Malagasy slit-faced bat weighting 17 grams
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil weighting 17 grams
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse weighting 17 grams