How many baby Variegated butterfly bats are in a litter?
A Variegated butterfly bat (Chalinolobus variegatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Vespertilionidae family (genus: Chalinolobus). An adult Variegated butterfly bat grows up to a size of 8.3 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.
The variegated butterfly bat (Glauconycteris variegata) is a species of vesper bat. It is sometimes also called the leaf-winged bat, or simply the butterfly bat. It is not currently endangered, but may be threatened by habitat loss in some parts of its range.
Other animals of the family Vespertilionidae
Variegated butterfly bat is a member of the Vespertilionidae, as are these animals:
- Flute-nosed bat weighting only 4 grams
- Brazilian brown bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s bat weighting only 6 grams
- Greater Papuan pipistrelle weighting only 6 grams
- Least woolly bat weighting only 2 grams
- Surat serotine weighting only 13 grams
- Eastern forest bat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desert pipistrelle weighting only 2 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat weighting only 7 grams
- Cadorna’s pipistrelle weighting only 6 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Variegated butterfly bat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Horse
- Chital
- Bulmer’s fruit bat
- Mona monkey
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Hector’s dolphin
- Arabian oryx
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Common blossom bat
Animals with the same weight as a Variegated butterfly bat
What other animals weight around 11 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Myosorex varius weighting 11 grams
- Southern pygmy mouse weighting 9 grams
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart weighting 11 grams
- Little free-tailed bat weighting 10 grams
- Ridley’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 9 grams
- Pallid large-footed myotis weighting 12 grams
- Kellen’s dormouse weighting 10 grams
- Golden bat weighting 12 grams
- Arizona pocket mouse weighting 11 grams
- Hildegarde’s shrew weighting 10 grams