How many baby Tailed tailless bats are in a litter?
A Tailed tailless bat (Anoura caudifera) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 108 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Phyllostomidae family (genus: Anoura). An adult Tailed tailless bat grows up to a size of 5.8 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 tailed tailless bat (Anoura caudifer) is a species of leaf-nosed bat from South America.
Other animals of the family Phyllostomidae
Tailed tailless bat is a member of the Phyllostomidae, as are these animals:
- Tonatia brasiliense weighting only 9 grams
- Tree bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Carriker’s round-eared bat weighting only 22 grams
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Little big-eyed bat weighting only 13 grams
- Big-eared woolly bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wrinkle-faced bat weighting only 23 grams
- Davies’s big-eared bat weighting only 18 grams
- Brown fruit-eating bat weighting only 19 grams
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat weighting only 9 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Tailed tailless bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lesser kudu
- Eastern falanouc
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat
- Brown titi
- Red acouchi
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
- Water buffalo
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis
- Steller’s sea cow
Animals with the same weight as a Tailed tailless bat
What other animals weight around 10 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Yellow serotine weighting 10 grams
- Smaller horseshoe bat weighting 10 grams
- Reddish-gray musk shrew weighting 8 grams
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat weighting 8 grams
- Common planigale weighting 12 grams
- Northern bat weighting 10 grams
- Common bent-wing bat weighting 11 grams
- Pilliga mouse weighting 10 grams
- Darien harvest mouse weighting 12 grams
- Andean small-eared shrew weighting 11 grams
Animals with the same size as a Tailed tailless bat
Also reaching around 5.8 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Ornate shrew gets as big as 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Silky pocket mouse gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tundra shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- North American least shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Paratriaenops furculus gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Red fruit bat gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fringed myotis gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common blossom bat gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)