How many baby Thomas’s sac-winged bats are in a litter?
A Thomas’s sac-winged bat (Balantiopteryx io) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1900 kg (4188.78 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Emballonuridae family (genus: Balantiopteryx). An adult Thomas’s sac-winged bat grows up to a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″).
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.
Thomas’s sac-winged bat (Balantiopteryx io) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae.It is found in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico.
Other animals of the family Emballonuridae
Thomas’s sac-winged bat is a member of the Emballonuridae, as are these animals:
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-bearded tomb bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dark sheath-tailed bat weighting only 2 grams
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat weighting only 45 grams
- Taphozous philippinensis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- African sheath-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common sheath-tailed bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pel’s pouched bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser sac-winged bat weighting only 1 grams
- Theobald’s tomb bat weighting only 36 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Thomas’s sac-winged bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Striped bandicoot
- Intermediate long-fingered bat
- Bald uakari
- Egyptian free-tailed bat
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Greater false vampire bat
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
- Venezuelan red howler
- Taiwan vole
- Rufous hare-wallaby
Animals with the same weight as a Thomas’s sac-winged bat
What other animals weight around 3 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- American pygmy shrew weighting 3 grams
- Peters’s disk-winged bat weighting 3 grams
- Arabian pipistrelle weighting 3 grams
- Little forest bat weighting 3 grams
- Johnston’s forest shrew weighting 3 grams
- Banana pipistrelle weighting 3 grams
- Canyon bat weighting 3 grams
- Ashy roundleaf bat weighting 3 grams
- Thumbless bat weighting 3 grams
- Philippine pygmy roundleaf bat weighting 3 grams
Animals with the same size as a Thomas’s sac-winged bat
Also reaching around 4 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle gets as big as 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Greater bulldog bat gets as big as 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat gets as big as 4.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Wagner’s mustached bat gets as big as 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle gets as big as 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Pacific sheath-tailed bat gets as big as 4.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rufous trident bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Cursor grass mouse gets as big as 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Grey long-eared bat gets as big as 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)