How many baby Sooty mustached bats are in a litter?
A Sooty mustached bat (Pteronotus quadridens) 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 156 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Mormoopidae family (genus: Pteronotus). An adult Sooty mustached bat grows up to a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″).
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 sooty mustached bat (Pteronotus quadridens) is a species of bat in the family Mormoopidae. It is found in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.
Other animals of the family Mormoopidae
Sooty mustached bat is a member of the Mormoopidae, as are these animals:
- Antillean ghost-faced bat weighting only 8 grams
- Ghost-faced bat weighting only 16 grams
- Antillean ghost-faced bat weighting only 8 grams
- Wagner’s mustached bat weighting only 7 grams
- Parnell’s mustached bat weighting only 19 grams
- Davy’s naked-backed bat weighting only 9 grams
- Big naked-backed bat weighting only 13 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Sooty mustached bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Drill (animal)
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Greater long-nosed bat
- African pygmy squirrel
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Bontebok
- Western rock elephant shrew
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Hamlyn’s monkey
- Western tree hyrax
Animals with the same weight as a Sooty mustached bat
What other animals weight around 5 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Climbing shrew weighting 5 grams
- Broad-headed pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- Maclaud’s horseshoe bat weighting 4 grams
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat weighting 4 grams
- Spix’s disk-winged bat weighting 4 grams
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat weighting 4 grams
- Eastern small-footed myotis weighting 5 grams
- Lesser woolly bat weighting 6 grams
- Temminck’s trident bat weighting 4 grams
- Flute-nosed bat weighting 4 grams