How many baby Somali serotines are in a litter?
A Somali serotine (Eptesicus somalicus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.1 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Eptesicus). 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:
- Geoffroy’s bat becoming 18 years old
- Dormer’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fringed myotis becoming 18.25 years old
- Groove-toothed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Allen’s big-eared bat becoming 3.17 years old
- Himalayan whiskered bat weighting only 2 grams
- Yellow-lipped bat weighting only 4 grams
- Angulate pipistrelle weighting only 3 grams
- Birdlike noctule with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Somali serotine
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Temminck’s striped mouse
- Peters’s musk shrew
- European pine vole
- Dark-footed mouse shrew
- Marine otter
- Chinese ferret-badger
- American badger
- Tatra pine vole
- Bushy-tailed jird
- Common mole-rat
Animals with the same weight as a Somali serotine
What other animals weight around 4 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Long-tailed shrew weighting 4 grams
- Peters’s sheath-tailed bat weighting 4 grams
- Yellow-lipped bat weighting 4 grams
- Least pipistrelle weighting 4 grams
- Western small-footed bat weighting 4 grams
- North American least shrew weighting 4 grams
- Doucet’s musk shrew weighting 4 grams
- Lesser horseshoe bat weighting 4 grams
- Borneo roundleaf bat weighting 4 grams
- Thailand roundleaf bat weighting 4 grams
Animals with the same size as a Somali serotine
Also reaching around 8.4 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Eastern shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pale kangaroo mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pallas’s pika gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northwestern deer mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little collared fruit bat gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desert mouse gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- European free-tailed bat gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)