How many baby Silver-haired bats are in a litter?
A Silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) 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 53 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 4.1 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Lasionycteris). An adult Silver-haired bat grows up to a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″).
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 silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans) is a solitary migratory species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae and the only member of the genus Lasionycteris.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Silver-haired bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Schlieffen’s bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Banana pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-fingered bat weighting only 8 grams
- Dormer’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow serotine weighting only 10 grams
- Brandt’s bat weighting only 5 grams
- Tacarcuna bat weighting only 12 grams
- Myotis vivesi becoming 10 years old
- Cave myotis becoming 11.25 years old
- Papillose woolly bat weighting only 10 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Silver-haired bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Black-footed mongoose
- Forest giant squirrel
- Shrew-faced squirrel
- Black dorcopsis
- Dusky leaf monkey
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo
- Antilopine kangaroo
- Greater false vampire bat
- Argali
- Bechstein’s bat
Animals that get as old as a Silver-haired bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- African clawless otter with 11 years
- European polecat with 14 years
- Bengal fox with 10 years
- Crab-eating raccoon with 14 years
- Speke’s pectinator with 10 years
- Taruca with 10.58 years
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 14.33 years
- Gray brocket with 12 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with 11.5 years
- Common bent-wing bat with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Silver-haired bat
What other animals weight around 11 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Lesser noctule weighting 12 grams
- Damara woolly bat weighting 10 grams
- Montane shrew tenrec weighting 13 grams
- Brazilian brown bat weighting 9 grams
- Silvered bat weighting 9 grams
- Isabelle’s ghost bat weighting 12 grams
- Hairy-faced bat weighting 9 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat weighting 10 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse weighting 12 grams
- Evening bat weighting 9 grams