How many baby Rafinesque’s big-eared bats are in a litter?
A Rafinesque’s big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii) 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 55 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Corynorhinus). An adult Rafinesque’s big-eared bat grows up to a size of 1.82 meter (6′ 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.
Rafinesque’s big-eared bat (Corynorhinus rafinesquii), sometimes known as the southeastern big-eared bat, is a species of vesper bat native to the southeastern United States.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Rafinesque’s big-eared bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Little yellow bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Surat serotine weighting only 13 grams
- Large myotis weighting only 42 grams
- Hairy-faced bat weighting only 9 grams
- Riparian myotis weighting only 4 grams
- Angulate pipistrelle weighting only 3 grams
- Pallid large-footed myotis weighting only 12 grams
- Burmese whiskered bat weighting only 8 grams
- Hodgson’s bat weighting only 7 grams
- Scully’s tube-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse
- Pacific white-sided dolphin
- Greater spot-nosed monkey
- Plush-coated ringtail possum
- Indri
- Common bottlenose dolphin
- Short-beaked echidna
- Scrub hare
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
- Lechwe
Animals that get as old as a Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10.08 years:
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 10 years
- Fisher (animal) with 10.08 years
- Chinese ferret-badger with 10.5 years
- Malagasy civet with 11 years
- Parti-coloured bat with 12 years
- Long-nosed potoroo with 12 years
- Red-legged sun squirrel with 8.83 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 10 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with 10.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Mahomet mouse weighting 10 grams
- Chestnut long-tongued bat weighting 8 grams
- Lesser large-footed bat weighting 8 grams
- Little broad-nosed bat weighting 10 grams
- Swamp musk shrew weighting 10 grams
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat weighting 9 grams
- Northern bat weighting 10 grams
- Gray bat weighting 10 grams
- White-bellied lesser house bat weighting 10 grams
- Yellow-throated big-eared bat weighting 10 grams