How many baby Taphozous philippinensiss are in a litter?
A Taphozous philippinensis (Taphozous philippinensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Emballonuridae family (genus: Taphozous). An adult Taphozous philippinensis grows up to a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Other animals of the family Emballonuridae
Taphozous philippinensis is a member of the Emballonuridae, as are these animals:
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat weighting only 45 grams
- Beccari’s sheath-tailed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Short-eared bat weighting only 5 grams
- Chestnut sac-winged bat weighting only 9 grams
- Small Asian sheath-tailed bat weighting only 5 grams
- Trinidad dog-like bat weighting only 4 grams
- Proboscis bat weighting only 4 grams
- Theobald’s tomb bat weighting only 36 grams
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat weighting only 26 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Taphozous philippinensis
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- White-tailed deer
- Ursine colobus
- Hispid pocket gopher
- Ground cuscus
- Typical vlei rat
- Mantled guereza
- Striped possum
- Mexican free-tailed bat
- Spectral bat
- Maroon leaf monkey
Animals with the same weight as a Taphozous philippinensis
What other animals weight around 20 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Eastern shrew mouse weighting 16 grams
- Steppe lemming weighting 20 grams
- Mediterranean pine vole weighting 22 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat weighting 22 grams
- Woodland dormouse weighting 20 grams
- Altiplano grass mouse weighting 20 grams
- Zenker’s fruit bat weighting 21 grams
- Agile gracile opossum weighting 22 grams
- Cactus mouse weighting 22 grams
- Yellow golden mole weighting 24 grams