How many baby Seminole bats are in a litter?
A Seminole bat (Lasiurus seminolus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Lasiurus). An adult Seminole bat grows up to a size of 7.5 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 Seminole bat (Lasiurus seminolus) is a species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae. A common feature of the family Vespertilionidae is a tail that is located completely within the uropatagium (the membrane located between the hind limbs in bats). In Seminole bats, and other members of the genus Lasiurus, the upper surface of this membrane is covered in fur.These bats were once thought to be the same species as the red bat (Lasiurus borealis), but are now considered a distinct species.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Seminole bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Common bent-wing bat becoming 14 years old
- Western false pipistrelle weighting only 23 grams
- Natal long-fingered bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown pipistrelle weighting only 6 grams
- Northern bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-faced bat weighting only 9 grams
- Southeastern myotis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous mouse-eared bat weighting only 7 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle weighting only 3 grams
- Tiny yellow bat weighting only 3 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Seminole bat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Fishing cat
- Champion’s tree mouse
- Tolai hare
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Stripe-necked mongoose
- Transcaspian vole
- Ord’s kangaroo rat
- Schlieffen’s bat
- Asian black bear
- Greenish yellow bat
Animals with the same weight as a Seminole bat
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Jouvenet’s shrew weighting 9 grams
- Pouched gerbil weighting 10 grams
- Little native mouse weighting 8 grams
- Commissaris’s long-tongued bat weighting 9 grams
- Siberian large-toothed shrew weighting 8 grams
- Honey possum weighting 9 grams
- Northern birch mouse weighting 8 grams
- Brants’s climbing mouse weighting 10 grams
- White-bellied lesser house bat weighting 10 grams
- Common shrew weighting 9 grams