How many baby Southeast Asian long-fingered bats are in a litter?
A Southeast Asian long-fingered bat (Miniopterus fuscus) 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 Southeast Asian long-fingered 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 Southeast Asian long-fingered bat (Miniopterus fuscus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.It is endemic to Japan.It has been assessed as endangered by the IUCN.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Southeast Asian long-fingered bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Myotis vivesi becoming 10 years old
- Szechwan myotis weighting only 11 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ridley’s bat weighting only 4 grams
- Hoary bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser mouse-eared bat becoming 19.75 years old
- Greater noctule bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kenyan wattled bat weighting only 7 grams
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dormer’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southeast Asian long-fingered bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Pygmy killer whale
- Shrew-faced squirrel
- White-bellied yellow bat
- Temminck’s flying squirrel
- Roe deer
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
- Macleay’s dorcopsis
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo
- Daubenton’s bat
- Smoky pocket gopher
Animals with the same weight as a Southeast Asian long-fingered bat
What other animals weight around 6 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Schlieffen’s bat weighting 5 grams
- Greater tube-nosed bat weighting 7 grams
- Northern little yellow-eared bat weighting 7 grams
- Cape serotine weighting 5 grams
- Savi’s pipistrelle weighting 6 grams
- Egyptian pygmy shrew weighting 7 grams
- Mexican big-eared bat weighting 7 grams
- Gambian slit-faced bat weighting 7 grams
- Salenski’s shrew weighting 5 grams
- Dormer’s bat weighting 6 grams