How many baby Pond bats are in a litter?
A Pond bat (Myotis dasycneme) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Myotis). An adult Pond bat grows up to a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″).
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 pond bat (Myotis dasycneme) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Eurasia from France to Russia and Kazakhstan.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Pond bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Small bent-winged bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Least woolly bat weighting only 2 grams
- Rohu’s bat weighting only 12 grams
- Beatrix’s bat weighting only 7 grams
- Dark-winged lesser house bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Light-winged lesser house bat weighting only 4 grams
- Whiskered bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southeast Asian long-fingered bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Flute-nosed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Least long-fingered bat weighting only 4 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Pond bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- South American sea lion
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
- Sunda flying lemur
- Parti-coloured bat
- Bongo (antelope)
- Blue wildebeest
- Margay
- Spix’s night monkey
- Temminck’s flying squirrel
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
Animals that get as old as a Pond bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 19.5 years:
- Cattle with 20 years
- Nilgiri tahr with 17.25 years
- Yellow-backed duiker with 17.25 years
- Desert warthog with 18.75 years
- Chital with 20.75 years
- Madagascan fruit bat with 20 years
- Blackbuck with 20.25 years
- Brown hyena with 17 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with 21.17 years
- Hector’s dolphin with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pond bat
What other animals weight around 15 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Russet free-tailed bat weighting 16 grams
- Rufous trident bat weighting 13 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat weighting 18 grams
- Merida small-eared shrew weighting 12 grams
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec weighting 18 grams
- Therese’s shrew weighting 17 grams
- Mehely’s horseshoe bat weighting 14 grams
- Para dog-faced bat weighting 12 grams
- Monte gerbil mouse weighting 18 grams
- Dollman’s tree mouse weighting 12 grams