How many baby Southern long-nosed bats are in a litter?
A Southern long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris curasoae) 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 121 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Leptonycteris). An adult Southern long-nosed bat grows up to a size of 2.55 meter (8′ 5″).
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 southern long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris curasoae) is a South American species of bat in the family Phyllostomidae.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Southern long-nosed bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat becoming 10 years old
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Velvety fruit-eating bat weighting only 16 grams
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern little yellow-eared bat weighting only 8 grams
- Wrinkle-faced bat weighting only 23 grams
- Pale spear-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Schultz’s round-eared bat weighting only 17 grams
- Striped hairy-nosed bat weighting only 13 grams
- Silver fruit-eating bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southern long-nosed bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Canyon bat
- Rhinolophus simplex
- Pileated gibbon
- White-faced saki
- Dibatag
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum
- White-throated guenon
- Natal red rock hare
- North Atlantic right whale
- Bawean deer
Animals that get as old as a Southern long-nosed bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Silky pocket mouse with 5 years
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 5 years
- Serotine bat with 6 years
- Black rat with 4.17 years
- Greater grison with 5.25 years
- Great gerbil with 4 years
- Forest dormouse with 4 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with 4.58 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with 4.58 years
- Aders’s duiker with 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southern long-nosed bat
What other animals weight around 25 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat weighting 26 grams
- Southern grasshopper mouse weighting 21 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat weighting 28 grams
- Beaded wood mouse weighting 22 grams
- Woodford’s fruit bat weighting 30 grams
- Aztec fruit-eating bat weighting 20 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting 22 grams
- Common noctule weighting 28 grams
- Taiwan field mouse weighting 25 grams
- Western false pipistrelle weighting 23 grams