How many baby Somali serotines are in a litter?
A Somali serotine (Neoromicia somalicus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Neoromicia). An adult Somali serotine grows up to a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Somali serotine (Neoromicia somalica) is a species of vesper bat.It is found in Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and moist savanna.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Somali serotine is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Southern forest bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater mouse-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape serotine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western barbastelle with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sind bat weighting only 7 grams
- Southern forest bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dormer’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pipistrellus babu weighting only 4 grams
- Argentine brown bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Somali serotine
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- African marsh rat
- African civet
- Spiny pocket mouse
- Dark-footed mouse shrew
- Fawn hopping mouse
- Brazilian guinea pig
- Meller’s mongoose
- Epixerus
- African wading rat
- Malayan mountain spiny rat
Animals with the same weight as a Somali serotine
What other animals weight around 3 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat weighting 3 grams
- Bottego’s shrew weighting 3 grams
- Curacao myotis weighting 3 grams
- Little forest bat weighting 3 grams
- Inyo shrew weighting 3 grams
- Spurrell’s woolly bat weighting 3 grams
- American pygmy shrew weighting 3 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec weighting 3 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle weighting 3 grams
- Thumbless bat weighting 3 grams
Animals with the same size as a Somali serotine
Also reaching around 8.4 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Jamaican flower bat gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Emilia’s gracile opossum gets as big as 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bavarian pine vole gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiga shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Steppe lemming gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Honey possum gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common vampire bat gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu shrew gets as big as 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)