How many baby Spectral bats are in a litter?
A Spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 362 grams (0.8 lbs) and measure 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Vampyrum). An adult Spectral bat grows up to a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″).
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 spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum), also called the great false vampire bat or Linnaeus’s false vampire bat, is a large, carnivorous leaf-nosed bat found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.It is the only member of the genus Vampyrum; its closest living relative is the big-eared woolly bat.It is the largest bat species in the New World, as well as the largest carnivorous bat: its wingspan is 0.7–1.0 m (2.3–3.3 ft).It has a robust skull and teeth, with which it delivers a powerful bite to kill its prey.Birds are frequent prey items, though it may also consume rodents, insects, and other bats.Unlike the majority of bat species, it is monogamous.Colonies consist of an adult male and female and their offspring.The adult male will bring food back to the roost to provision the adult female and their offspring.Colonies generally roost in tree hollows, though individuals may roost in caves.Due to habitat destruction and its low population density, it is listed as a near-threatened species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Spectral bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Dark fruit-eating bat weighting only 35 grams
- Vampyriscus nymphaea weighting only 69 grams
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silky short-tailed bat weighting only 14 grams
- Long-legged bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy fruit-eating bat weighting only 40 grams
- Buffy broad-nosed bat weighting only 50 grams
- Fringed fruit-eating bat weighting only 63 grams
- Velvety fruit-eating bat weighting only 16 grams
- Toltec fruit-eating bat weighting only 15 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Spectral bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Eastern falanouc
- Ocelot
- Japanese serow
- Heart-nosed bat
- Plush-coated ringtail possum
- Green ringtail possum
- Stephen’s woodrat
- Narwhal
- Cape horseshoe bat
- Little free-tailed bat
Animals that get as old as a Spectral bat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6.5 years:
- Rakali with 6.17 years
- Florida mouse with 7.33 years
- Mongolian gazelle with 7 years
- Kowari with 7 years
- Woodland dormouse with 5.75 years
- Greater bulldog bat with 5.75 years
- Indian gerbil with 7 years
- Arctic hare with 7 years
- Garden dormouse with 5.5 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with 5.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Spectral bat
What other animals weight around 171 grams (0.38 lbs)?
- Striped bush squirrel weighting 160 grams
- Palawan treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Ochre mole-rat weighting 200 grams
- Lesser stick-nest rat weighting 150 grams
- Large vlei rat weighting 192 grams
- Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat weighting 138 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher weighting 172 grams
- Moon-toothed degu weighting 200 grams
- Indian hedgehog weighting 171 grams
- New Caledonia flying fox weighting 151 grams