How many baby Tiny pipistrelles are in a litter?
A Tiny pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nanulus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Pipistrellus). An adult Tiny pipistrelle grows up to a size of 4.5 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.
The tiny pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nanulus) is a species of vesper bat. It can be found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. It is found in subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and moist savanna.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Tiny pipistrelle is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Indiana bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tropical big-eared brown bat weighting only 11 grams
- Daubenton’s bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-faced bat weighting only 9 grams
- Yellowish myotis weighting only 5 grams
- Western small-footed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Common bent-wing bat becoming 14 years old
- Gray bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater mouse-eared bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tiny pipistrelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Yellow baboon
- Dark-winged lesser house bat
- Tasmanian pademelon
- Leadbeater’s possum
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Baird’s tapir
- Mongolian gazelle
- Bush vlei rat
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Gray brocket
Animals with the same weight as a Tiny pipistrelle
What other animals weight around 2 grams (0 lbs)?
- Flat-headed shrew weighting 2 grams
- Black myotis weighting 2 grams
- Desert pipistrelle weighting 2 grams
- Borneo roundleaf bat weighting 2 grams
- Arizona shrew weighting 2 grams
- Dwarf shrew weighting 2 grams
- Desert pipistrelle weighting 2 grams
- Pipistrellus mimus weighting 2 grams
- Etruscan shrew weighting 2 grams
- Eurasian least shrew weighting 2 grams