How many baby Small bent-winged bats are in a litter?
A Small bent-winged bat (Miniopterus pusillus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Miniopterus). An adult Small bent-winged bat grows up to a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″).
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 small bent-winged bat (Miniopterus pusillus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Miniopteridae. A novel version of the Coronavirus has been identified in this species.It can be found in the following countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Small bent-winged bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Geoffroy’s bat becoming 18 years old
- Northern yellow bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Little bent-wing bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common bent-wing bat becoming 14 years old
- Greater mouse-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese house bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied lesser house bat weighting only 10 grams
- Brandt’s bat weighting only 5 grams
- Schlieffen’s bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Small bent-winged bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Javan rusa
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Dromedary
- Southern viscacha
- Leschenault’s rousette
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Asian small-clawed otter
Animals with the same weight as a Small bent-winged bat
What other animals weight around 8 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Daubenton’s bat weighting 7 grams
- Eastern long-eared bat weighting 9 grams
- Chestnut climbing mouse weighting 8 grams
- Verapaz shrew weighting 7 grams
- Coelops frithi weighting 7 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat weighting 7 grams
- Hairy-faced bat weighting 9 grams
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat weighting 7 grams
- Gray climbing mouse weighting 9 grams
- Bushveld horseshoe bat weighting 8 grams