How many baby Southwestern myotiss are in a litter?
A Southwestern myotis (Myotis auriculus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Myotis). An adult Southwestern myotis grows up to a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″).
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 southwestern myotis (Myotis auriculus) is a species of vesper bat. It is found in Guatemala, Mexico, and in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Southwestern myotis is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Arizona myotis weighting only 8 grams
- Greater mouse-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Myotis vivesi becoming 10 years old
- Yellow serotine weighting only 10 grams
- Hodgson’s bat weighting only 7 grams
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern yellow bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Schlieffen’s bat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Big brown bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rendall’s serotine weighting only 6 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Southwestern myotis
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lesser horseshoe bat
- Homo sapiens
- Eld’s deer
- Taiwan vole
- Honduran white bat
- Silky anteater
- Leschenault’s rousette
- Gray whale
- Asian elephant
- Rwanda African mole-rat
Animals that get as old as a Southwestern myotis
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3.17 years:
- Silvery mole-rat with 3.08 years
- Little red kaluta with 3 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with 2.75 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 3 years
- African pygmy mouse with 3.08 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with 3.75 years
- White-footed mouse with 3.17 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3.75 years
- New Guinean quoll with 3 years
- Alpine pika with 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southwestern myotis
What other animals weight around 38 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil weighting 38 grams
- Handleyomys alfaroi weighting 33 grams
- Sepia short-tailed opossum weighting 36 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse weighting 35 grams
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse weighting 39 grams
- Mexican water mouse weighting 40 grams
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse weighting 41 grams
- Dorothy’s slender opossum weighting 37 grams
- Lesser tree mouse weighting 45 grams
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat weighting 35 grams